Avondale Estates Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

One of 56 National Register listings published here for DeKalb County · listed in 1986 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Avondale Rd., Lakeshore Dr., Kingstone, Clarendon, and Fairchild Dr., also Lake Avondale, Avondale Estates, 30002
When was it listed? December 1986
Category. district
Census division. Atlanta-Decatur
National Register reference number. 86003669 - 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

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Avondale Estates Historic District between 1993 and 2007, burning about 18 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
10 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 July 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 July 1993	Arson/incendiarism	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
23 March 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 March 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this property

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avondale Estates, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2017: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Avondale Estates	$15,000	A National Weather Service survey team found that an EF0 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 70 MPH and a maximum path width of 80 yards touched down near Forest Glen Circle in central DeKalb County where it broke several large branches and uprooted a few trees. The tornado moved northeast crossing I-285, North Decatur Road, Dial Road and Greenridge Circle snapping or uprooting a few more trees before ending just past Greenridge Circle. [05/04/17: Tornado #2, County #1/1, EF-0, DeKalb, 2017:071].
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Avondale Estates	$2,000	The De Kalb county 911 center reported lots of trees down on Midway Road, Glenwood Avenue, and Columbia Drive in Avondale Estates; and two small trees down on Memorial Drive and North Hairston Road in Stone Mountain.
July 2011	Hail	Avondale Estates	-	The public observed penny-sized hail near Avondale Estates.
April 2003	Hail	Avondale Estates	-	A relative of a NWS employee reported mostly penny, but a few hailstones the size of a quarter on Memorial Drive at Interstate 285.
May 2003	Hail	Avondale Estates	-	The public reported penny-sized hail.
May 2003	Hail	Avondale Estates	-	The public reported quarter size hail.
August 1999	Hail	Avondale Estates	-	A citizen reported dime size hail and tree limbs blown down onto the road.

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
Winnona Park Historic District	1.0 miles	2002
Decatur Heights-Glennwood Estates-Sycaore Street Historic District	1.2 miles	2016
Agnes Lee Chapter House of the United Daughters of the Confederacy	1.2 miles	1985
Cora Beck Hampton Schoolhouse and House	1.2 miles	1992
Ponce de Leon Court Historic District	1.3 miles	2011
South Candler Street-Agnes Scott College Historic District	1.4 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86003669 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.