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Scottdale, 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 30079. It stands on Stewart Creek. The Survey maps it on the Northeast Atlanta quadrangle. 10,698 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,030 feet above sea level.

Scottdale within DeKalb County

On record in Scottdale

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Scottdale grew from 10,631 to 10,698 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
201010,631
202010,698+67 (+1%)

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

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Scottdale between 1993 and 1999, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1

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
7 April 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 April 1999Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 March 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 March 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 March 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 March 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Ingleside0.6 miles21
Avondale Estates1.3 miles21
North DeKalb1.5 miles21
Clarkston1.9 miles24
Clairmont Park1.9 miles21
Decatur2.0 miles21
North Decatur2.2 miles21
Country Squire Acres2.3 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 ScottdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2093120The 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 332993. 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.