BlockFrom the record
One of 56 National Register listings published here for DeKalb County · listed in 2017 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Northcrest Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Chamblee-Tucker, Northcrest & Pleasantdale Rds., Doraville, 30340
- When was it listed? April 2017
- Category. district
- Census division. Tucker
- National Register reference number. 100000883 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
37 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Northcrest Historic District between 1992 and 2005, burning about 109 acres in total. None started naturally. 20 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 | 20 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
| 2 August 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 August 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 July 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 July 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 June 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Storms near this property
15 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Doraville, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2009 | Lightning | Doraville | $300,000 | WSB Television of Atlanta reported that lightning strikes resulted in two house fires in the Chamblee and Tucker area of northern DeKalb county. A two story home on Beacon Court and another two-story home on Laurel Post Court both suffered extensive damage from lightning-related fires. |
| December 2015 | Flash Flood | Doraville | $150,000 | A USGS stream gauge on North Fork Peachtree Creek at Buford Highway or Georgia Highway 13 near Atlanta reached flood stage of 13 feet. The creek crest at 14.8 feet. Significant flooding occurred upstream and downstream from the gauge. Large portions of the backyards of residential homes on Victory Drive...Dunwoody Place and Converse Drive flooded with around two feet of water. A portion of the Sun Tan Center parking lot near the gauge flooded. A few roads and culverts in the area were damaged or washed out. |
| January 2014 | Flash Flood | Doraville | $3,000 | The stage height of a USGS stream gage on the North Fork Peachtree Creek at Buford Highway reached flood stage of 13 feet. The creek crest at 13.1 feet. Minor flooding occurred in the low portions of residential backyards off of Victory Drive, Dunwoody Place and Converse Drive. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Doraville | $3,000 | Several trees were knocked down. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Doraville | $1,000 | A tree was downed in the 4000 block of N Shallowford Road. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Doraville | $1,000 | Tree down on Regalwoods Drive between Northcrest Road and Summitridge Drive. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Doraville | $250 | The broadcast media relayed a report of a tree down on Presidential Drive. |
| January 2023 | Flash Flood | Doraville | - | Broadcast Media reported the right lanes blocked on Interstate 285 at Peachtree Industrial Blvd due to water over the roadway. Radar estimates indicate that 3 to 4 inches of rain fell quickly over the area, resulting in the flash flooding. |
| August 2020 | Flash Flood | Doraville | - | The broadcast media reported flooding of both lanes of Peachtree Boulevard, near the intersection with Broad Street. The water reached halfway up the tires of cars driving by. |Radar estimates indicate that 3 to 4 inches of rain occurred in the area. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Doraville | - | A report of quarter size hail at the intersection of I-85 and I-285 was received over social media. |
| April 2003 | Lightning | Doraville | - | The Gwinnett Daily Post of Lawrenceville reported that lightning struck a home on Park Road. However, no monetary damage was suffered. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Doraville | - | An amateur radio operator reported penny-sized hail. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Doraville | - | The public reported nickel size hail in Doraville and dime size hail in Tucker. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Doraville | - | Dime sized hail fell. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Doraville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Northwoods Historic District | 2.2 miles | 2014 |
| Longview-Huntley Hills Historic District | 3.9 miles | 2017 | |
 | Dr. Luther C. and Lucy Hurt Fischer House | 4.6 miles | 2011 |
 | Oglethorpe University Historic District | 5.5 miles | 1994 |
 | Donaldson-Bannister House and Cemetery | 5.5 miles | 2009 |
 | Steele-Cobb House | 6.4 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100000883 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.