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One of 56 National Register listings published here for DeKalb County · listed in 2017 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Longview-Huntley Hills Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- Address. Montford, Commodore & Admiral Drs., Shallowford Rd., Chamblee, 30341
- When was it listed? March 2017
- Category. district
- Census division. Chamblee-Doraville
- National Register reference number. 100000730 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
16 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Longview-Huntley Hills Historic District between 1992 and 2016, burning about 71 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/incendiarism | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 August 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 July 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 May 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 May 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 April 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 April 1999 | Smoking | 3.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Storms near this property
16 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chamblee, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2011: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2009 | Hail | Chamblee | $2,500,000 | The public reported nickel to golf-ball sized hail across northern DeKalb county from Chamblee to Tucker. |
| July 2007 | Lightning | Chamblee | $200,000 | Local Atlanta broadcast media reported that a house was set on fire by a lightning strike on Oakland Trace near Oglethorpe University. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chamblee | $50,000 | The public reported that thunderstorm winds blew a large tree down onto a home near Chamblee causing damage to the home and an adjacent truck. |
| January 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chamblee | $5,000 | The public reported that several trees were blown down and a number of shingles were displaced from a roof on Cardinal Drive in Tucker. The public also reported that a considerable amount of leaf and pine cone debris was found in the area. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chamblee | $5,000 | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that thunderstorm winds blew down a number of trees onto power lines causing a number of power outages in the area. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chamblee | $4,000 | The public reported that thunderstorm winds knocked down three pine trees. They were about 2 feet in diameter and 80 to 100 feet tall. |
| August 2010 | Lightning | Chamblee | $500 | The DeKalb County Emergency Management Director reported that lightning struck a tree causing the tree to split apart and fall. |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chamblee | $500 | A couple of large trees were downed by thunderstorm winds at Dresdon and Shallowford Roads near Interstate 85. |
| December 2008 | Heavy Rain | Chamblee | - | An amateur radio operator relayed a report of street and highway flooding on Interstate 85 at Shallowford Road. Water was reported to be eight to twelve inches deep on the interstate. Rainfall of 1.0 to 1.5 inches fell across much of western DeKalb county in about one hour as a line of heavy thunderstorms traversed the area during this time frame. |
| March 2008 | Hail | Chamblee | - | The public reported penny-sized hail. |
| February 2005 | Hail | Chamblee | - | The public reported quarter and half-dollar-sized hail in Tucker, a storm spotter reported nickel-sized hail in Decatur, and the public reported penny-sized hail near the DeKalb-Peachtree Airport. |
| December 2004 | Hail | Chamblee | - | A trained spotter for the National Weather Service reported penny-sized hail. |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Chamblee | - | A storm spotter reported that a number of roads in the Chamblee area were flooded and impassable. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Chamblee | - | Several amateur radio reports of hail, ranging in size from quarters to golf balls, were received. Quarter to golf ball-sized hail were reported in and just south of Tucker, golf ball-sized hail in Chamblee, and quarter to half-dollar-sized hail in Clarkston. The public reported quarter to golf-ball sized hail just east of Decatur. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Chamblee | - | The public reported quarter size hail. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Chamblee | - | no account filed |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Dr. Luther C. and Lucy Hurt Fischer House | 0.7 miles | 2011 |
 | Northwoods Historic District | 1.9 miles | 2014 |
 | Donaldson-Bannister House and Cemetery | 2.0 miles | 2009 |
 | Oglethorpe University Historic District | 2.9 miles | 1994 |
 | Cheek-Spruill House | 3.3 miles | 2000 |
| Northcrest Historic District | 3.9 miles | 2017 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100000730 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.
- 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.