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North Decatur, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Atlanta-Decatur census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30033. It stands on Morse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Northeast Atlanta quadrangle. 18,511 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 994 feet above sea level.

North Decatur within DeKalb County

On record in North Decatur

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 6 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

North Decatur grew from 16,698 to 18,511 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
201016,698
202018,511+1,813 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of North Decatur between 1993 and 1999, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
15 July 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 April 1999Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 March 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Decatur in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNorth Decatur$1,000A tree was downed on Longshore Cove .
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNorth Decatur$1,000Tree down across road at intersection of Redan Rd and Holcombe Rd.
December 2002Flash FloodNorth Decatur-National Weather Service official river gage readings showed a rise of Peachtree Creek at Northside Drive from less than 10 feet to 17 feet in a 1 to 2 hour time frame. Flood stage is 17.0 feet. This was the result of rainfall up to 2.5 inches in 6 hours or less throughout this general area. Only minor nuisance flooding of low lying areas near the creek were observed, with no monetary damage reported. Nuisance flooding in low lying areas was also observed on Nancy Creek, which flows through the same general area.

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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
Emory Estates0.4 miles21
Emory Highlands0.6 miles21
Clairmont Park0.7 miles21
Chelsea Heights0.8 miles21
Emory0.8 miles21
Decatur1.2 miles21
Turner Village1.4 miles21
Druid Hills1.7 miles21

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 North DecaturAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3302345The 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 332514. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.