Kirkwood Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“The Kirkwood Historic District, in the Kirkwood neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, is a large historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The district included 1788 contributing buildings, a contributing structure, and three contributing sites on 850 acres (3.4 km2).”
Wikipedia article Kirkwood Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for DeKalb County · listed in 2009 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Memorial Dr., Montgomery St., Hosea Williams Dr., Rogers St., CSX RR., & city limits, Atlanta, 30317
When was it listed? September 2009
Category. district
Census division. Atlanta-Decatur
National Register reference number. 09000749 - 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

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Kirkwood Historic District between 1993 and 2001, burning about 16 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
10 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 May 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 April 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 March 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 March 1994	Arson/incendiarism	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 March 1994	Arson/incendiarism	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

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

6 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Kirkwood School	0.2 miles	2002
William and Minnie Pearce House	0.8 miles	2012
Candler Park Historic District	0.9 miles	1983
Druid Hills Parks and Parkways	1.2 miles	1975
Smith-Benning House	1.2 miles	1982
Robert A. Alston House	1.2 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000749 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.