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According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.6 square miles (9.3 km 2), of which 0.004 square miles (0.01 km 2), or 0.11%, is water. [7] Crooked Creek, a tributary of the Chattahoochee River, runs through Doraville. The City of Doraville is located in DeKalb County.
Map of Northwoods Historic District An entrance from Buford Highway. Northwoods is the largest of the five neighborhoods included in the district, and it contains the district's two parks, Brook Park and Autumn Park. Walter Tally's vision for Northwoods was that it would be a "city within a city" that included within it a variety of uses.
The Peachtree Creek Greenway trail is a multi-use trail under construction along the North Fork Peachtree Creek in and near Atlanta, Georgia, United States, which will traverse the cities of Atlanta, Brookhaven, Chamblee, Doraville and parts of unincorporated Dekalb County.
Doraville Assembly was a General Motors automobile factory in Doraville, Georgia, just northeast of Atlanta. The plant opened in 1947 and was under the management of GM's newly created Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac Assembly Division created in 1945. It was closed on 26 September 2008 as part of the company's cost-cutting measures. [1]
The area of DeKalb county was acquired by the state of Georgia as a result of the 1821 Treaty of Indian Springs with a faction of the Muscogee (Creek). DeKalb County, formed in 1822 from Henry, Gwinnett and Fayette counties, took its name from Baron Johann de Kalb (1721–1780), a Bavarian-born former officer in the French Army, who fought for the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary ...
I-285 (Atlanta Bypass / SR 407) – Greenville, Marietta, Chattanooga: I-285 exit 31; southern end of freeway: 8.4: 13.5: Tilly Mill Road – Georgia State University: DeKalb–Gwinnett county line: Doraville–Peachtree Corners city line: 9.5: 15.3: Winters Chapel Road / Amwiler Road: Gwinnett: Peachtree Corners: 10.6: 17.1: Jones Mill Road ...
Buford Highway (also Buford Highway Corridor), a.k.a. the DeKalb International Corridor, [4] [5] and in the 1990–2000's as the DeKalb County International Village district, [6] is a community northeast of the city of Atlanta, celebrated for its ethnic diversity and spanning multiple counties including Fulton, DeKalb, and Gwinnett counties in the U.S. state of Georgia.
It is named for Tom Moreland, a former commissioner of the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) from 1975 to 1987. I-85 is a major traffic corridor from the northeastern suburbs of Atlanta in the Gwinnett County area into downtown Atlanta. I-285 is a beltway around Atlanta.