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Panthersville, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Atlanta-Decatur census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30034. It stands on Doolittle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Southeast Atlanta quadrangle. 11,237 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 889 feet above sea level.

Panthersville within DeKalb County

Population over time

2 figures

Panthersville grew from 9,749 to 11,237 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
20109,749
202011,237+1,488 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

38 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Panthersville between 1993 and 2013, burning about 164 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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/incendiarism17
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
10 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 1999Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 July 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 July 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 1993Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this place

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Panthersville in 14 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
March 2008HailPanthersville$1,500,000The public observed golf ball-sized hail across the central and southeast portions of DeKalb county from west of Decatur to Lithonia.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindPanthersville$20,000The Georgia Department of Transportation reported a tree blown down onto I-285 eastbound just past Flat Shoals Road. Several cars were involved in an accident due to the downed tree. No injuries were reported.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindPanthersville$10,000The DeKalb County 911 center reported numerous trees blown down across the southern end of the county. Locations include Oakvale Road at Panthersville Road, Flakes Mill Road at Brookstone Road, Dogwood Farms Drive and Tarragon Drive, Dogwood Farms Road and Highway 155, Browns Mill Road east of Highway 155, and Snapfinger Road at River Road.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindPanthersville$5,000The DeKalb County 911 Center reported that a number of trees and power lines were blown down in the Flat Shoals Parkway and River Road areas.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindPanthersville$2,000A tree and power lines were downed on Columbia Drive at Rainbow Drive.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindPanthersville$1,000Tree downed across Clifton Springs Road .
January 2024Thunderstorm WindPanthersville$1,000A tree was downed on Wildcat Rd .
January 2024Thunderstorm WindPanthersville$1,000A tree was downed on Columbia Dr at Tralyn Ct.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindPanthersville$1,000Tree down blocking roadway along 2900 block of da vinci blvd.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindPanthersville$1,000A tree was reported down in the 3600 block of Rainbow Drive.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindPanthersville$1,000Powerlines down across road on Springside Ln.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPanthersville$1,000The Red Cross reported a tree on a house on Wabash Lane.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindPanthersville$200The public reported trees down near I-285.
April 2021HailPanthersville-The DeKalb County Emergency manager reported quarter size hail near I-20 and Columbia Road.

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
Rovena Acres1.8 miles21
Briar Glen1.9 miles21
Forest Ridge1.9 miles21
Tamarack2.0 miles21
Moonlight Forest2.1 miles23
River Hills2.2 miles21
Leisure Woods2.2 miles23
Creekwood Hills2.2 miles23

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 PanthersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2127460The 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 332600. 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.