Pine Lake, Georgia
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Stone Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30083. The Survey maps it on the Stone Mountain quadrangle. 752 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 948 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPine Lake grew from 730 to 752 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 730 | |
| 2020 | 752 | +22 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 24 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1888 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
- 1890 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
- 1895 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Stone Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Stone Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Stone Mountain quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
34 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Pine Lake between 1992 and 2000, burning about 29 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 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/incendiarism | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 August 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pine Lake: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stone Mountain Quarry | Granite | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Lake in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine Lake | $6,000 | The DeKalb County 911 center reported trees blown down across the southeastern portion of the county, including on Evans Mill Road near Snapfinger, on Rowland Road near Stone Mountain and on Austin Drive near Decatur. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunters Glen | 1.5 miles | 24 | |
| Wilshire | 1.9 miles | 24 | |
| Oakengate | 1.9 miles | 24 | |
| Clarkston | 2.1 miles | 24 | |
| Brook Hollow | 2.1 miles | 24 | |
| Stone Mountain | 2.1 miles | 24 | |
| Idlewood Acres | 2.5 miles | 24 | |
| Stone Mill Run | 2.5 miles | 24 |
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 Pine Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2761946 | The 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 332672. 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.
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.










