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Gainesville was the site of a deadly F4 on June 1, 1903, which killed 98 people. Gainesville was the site of the fifth deadliest tornado in U.S. history in 1936, [13] in which Gainesville was devastated and 203 people were killed. [14] In April 1974, an F4 tornado 22.6 miles away from the Gainesville city center killed six people and injured ...
State Route 53 Connector (SR 53 Conn.) is a 3.9-mile-long (6.3 km) connector route of SR 53. It travels west-to-east in the western part of Gainesville. The highway is a connector route between the SR 53 mainline, which turns sharply southwest and then south, and SR 60, which in turn connects downtown Gainesville with I-985/SR 365.
Interstate 985 (I-985) is a 24.04-mile-long (38.69 km) auxiliary Interstate Highway in Northeast Georgia. It links the Atlanta metropolitan area to the city of Gainesville via Suwanee . I-985 is also known as the Sidney Lanier Parkway , after the musician and poet , and is also designated as unsigned State Route 419 ( SR 419 ).
Meanwhile, US 129 Business/SR 11 heads north into the heart of Gainesville. Nearly 2.5 miles (4.0 km) later US 129 departs the concurrency to the north with SR 369 on Jesse Jewell Parkway. About 1.4 miles (2.3 km) later, I-985 ends, while US 23/SR 365 continues north. This segment of US 23/SR 365 is an example of an unfinished freeway.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 429 square miles (1,110 km 2), of which 393 square miles (1,020 km 2) is land and 37 square miles (96 km 2) (8.5%) is water. [6] The county is located in the upper Piedmont region of the state in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the north.
SR 30 begins at an intersection with SR 41 south-southeast of Buena Vista, in the south-central part of Marion County. The highway travels southeast through rural areas of the county and enters Sumter County. In Friendship is an intersection with SR 153. About 2.5 miles (4.0 km) later is the northern terminus of SR 45.
The Gainesville Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of one county – Hall – in the state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census , the MSA had a population of 179,684 (though a July 1, 2016 estimate placed the population at 196,637).
Route was shortened in 1989 when mileage was shifted to a newly re-designated GA 63. The old alignment extends from current SR 184 to SR 51 and is today known as Damascus Road. The northern end originally had a covered bridge known as Prathers Bridge. SR 185: 12.90: 20.76 SR 23 / SR 121 southwest of Saint George: SR 94 in Moniac — — SR 186: ...