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Mountain Park, Georgia

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Lilburn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30047. It stands on Hale Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stone Mountain quadrangle. 13,089 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Mountain Park within Gwinnett County

Population over time

2 figures

Mountain Park grew from 11,554 to 13,089 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201011,554
202013,089+1,535 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Park between 1992 and 2007, burning about 201 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 33 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism33
Recreation and ceremony15
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning4
Natural3
Smoking2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1993Arson/incendiarism3.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1993Arson/incendiarism2.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1993Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1993Arson/incendiarism6.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1993Arson/incendiarism3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1993Arson/incendiarism2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1993Arson/incendiarism14 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gwinnett County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mountain Park: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Stone Mountain QuarryGraniteProducer

Every working recorded in Gwinnett County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lanford0.2 miles24
Trickem0.3 miles24
Mountain Brooke0.9 miles24
Camp Creek Estates1.0 miles22
Corinth Hills1.0 miles22
Four Winds1.8 miles24
Lake Lucerne Estates1.8 miles22
Carrefour Place2.1 miles24

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Mountain ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2315279The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1867244. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.