Northwoods Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“The Northwoods Historic District in DeKalb County, Georgia, consists of five adjoining residential neighborhoods, including Northwoods, Fleetwood Hills, Gordon Hills, Gordon Heights and Sequoyah Woods. The Northwoods, Gordon Hills and Gordon Heights neighborhoods are all located within the city limits of Doraville, Georgia, and Sequoyah Woods and Fleetwood Hills are located in unincorporated DeKalb County.”
Wikipedia article Northwoods Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for DeKalb County · listed in 2014 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Buford Hwy., Chamblee-Tucker & Shallowford Rds., I-85 & I-285, Doraville, 30340
When was it listed? June 2014
Category. district
Census division. Chamblee-Doraville
National Register reference number. 14000322 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Northwoods Historic District between 1992 and 2005, burning about 85 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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	13
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
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
30 May 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 May 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 May 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this property

15 since 1997

Regional 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

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

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
Longview-Huntley Hills Historic District	1.9 miles	2017
Northcrest Historic District	2.2 miles	2017
Dr. Luther C. and Lucy Hurt Fischer House	2.6 miles	2011
Oglethorpe University Historic District	3.4 miles	1994
Donaldson-Bannister House and Cemetery	3.8 miles	2009
Cheek-Spruill House	5.2 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000322 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.
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.