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Stone Mountain, 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. It stands on Stone Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Stone Mountain quadrangle. 6,703 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,043 feet above sea level.

Stone Mountain within DeKalb County

On record in Stone Mountain

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Stone Mountain grew from 5,802 to 6,703 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
20105,802
20206,703+901 (+16%)

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.

Photographs

4 photographs, 2017

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Aerial photograph, taken in October 2017, of Stone Mountain, in the town of the same name east of downtown Atlanta, Georgia
Aerial photograph, taken in October 2017, of Stone Mountain, in the town of the same name east of downtown Atlanta, Georgia
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Aerial photograph, taken in October 2017, of a controversial Confederate memorial on Stone Mountain in the town of the same name east of downtown Atlanta, Georgia
Aerial photograph, taken in October 2017, of a controversial Confederate memorial on Stone Mountain in the town of the same name east of downtown Atlanta, Georgia
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Aerial photograph, taken in October 2017, of Stone Mountain, in the town of the same name east of downtown Atlanta, Georgia
Aerial photograph, taken in October 2017, of Stone Mountain, in the town of the same name east of downtown Atlanta, Georgia
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Aerial photograph, taken in October 2017, of Stone Mountain, in the town of the same name east of downtown Atlanta, Georgia
Aerial photograph, taken in October 2017, of Stone Mountain, in the town of the same name east of downtown Atlanta, Georgia
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Stone Mountain between 1992 and 2007, burning about 134 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 26 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/incendiarism26
Recreation and ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Debris and open burning3
Natural3

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
1 August 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb 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 Stone Mountain: 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 DeKalb County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stone Mountain in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 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 1996HailStone Mountain-no account filed

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
Stone Mill Run0.9 miles24
Brook Hollow1.6 miles24
Silver Ridge1.7 miles24
Hunters Glen1.8 miles24
Pine Lake2.1 miles24
Wilshire2.3 miles24
Brentwood2.3 miles24
Kings Mountain2.5 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 Stone MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2073622The 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 326087. 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.