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Photograph of College Avenue Bridge
Photograph by Jody Hamilton from Suwanee, GA, USA, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

College Avenue Bridge

Built in 1893. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.

From the record

“King Bridge, also known as Stone Mountain Covered Bridge and College Avenue Bridge, is a covered bridge in Stone Mountain Park in DeKalb County, Georgia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.”

Wikipedia article Washington W. King Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for DeKalb County · listed in 2022 · category: Structure · built in 1893.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. Covered Bridge Ln. (1000 Robert E. Lee Blvd., Stone Mountain Park), Stone Mountain, 30083
  • When was it listed? March 2022
  • Category. structure
  • Census division. Stone Mountain
  • When was it built? 1893
  • National Register reference number. 100007520 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of College Avenue Bridge between 1992 and 2007, burning about 212 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 33 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/incendiarism33
Recreation and ceremony17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Debris and open burning4
Natural3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 September 1999Smokingunder 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

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of College Avenue Bridge: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Rock Chapel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fowler's QuarryGranitePast Producer
Stone Mountain QuarryGraniteProducer

Every working recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this property

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stone Mountain, the town this property stands in, 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

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

4 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Stone Mountain Historic District2.3 miles2000
Bond Family House4.4 miles2008
Lithonia Historic District6.4 miles2016
Seminary, The6.6 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100007520 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
DeKalb CountyAll 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.