BlockFrom the record
One of 56 National Register listings published here for DeKalb County · listed in 2007 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Klondike Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
The listing
- Address. Klondike and S. Goddard Rds., Klondike, 30038
- When was it listed? September 2007
- Category. district
- Census division. Lithonia
- National Register reference number. 07001001 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
139 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Klondike Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 368 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 44 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 49 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 44 |
| Smoking | 15 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2003 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020ROCKDALE002 |
| 17 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020DEKALB001 |
| 15 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 1993 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 1998 | Smoking | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Klondike Historic District: 6 producers, 3 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawson Sand & Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Vaughn Deposit | Mica | Occurrence | ||
| Lithonia Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Lithonia Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Pine Mountain Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Banks Quarry | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Barber's Quarry | Granite | Producer | ||
| North Georgia Quarry | Granite | Producer | ||
| Pine Mountain Quarry | Granite | Producer | ||
| Pine Mountain Quarry | Granite | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 2023Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Klondike, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Klondike | - | Tree down along S Goddard Rd at Roundtree Ln. |
| January 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Klondike | - | A brief tornado touched down and dissipated quickly in the Spring Lake neighborhood off Evans Mill Rd. The tornado only traveled 100 yards within a minute, but downed |dozens of trees which fell on and damaged several homes. |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
3 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Seminary, The | 4.1 miles | 1978 |
| Lithonia Historic District | 4.3 miles | 2016 | |
 | Bond Family House | 7.5 miles | 2008 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 07001001 in Record Group 79. |
| DeKalb County | All 56 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- 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.