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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 ...
The community is located along Georgia State Route 60, 9.6 miles (15.4 km) north-northwest of Gainesville. Murrayville has a post office with ZIP code 30564. [2] [3] The community was named after Patrick J. Murray, a local merchant. [4]
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).
The population density was 725.3 inhabitants per square mile (280.0/km 2). There were 820 housing units at an average density of 329.3 per square mile (127.1/km 2 ). The racial makeup of the town was 80.22% White , 10.18% African American , 0.44% Native American , 0.28% Asian , 2.21% from other races , and 0.66% from two or more races.
State Route 60 (SR 60) is a 90.1-mile-long (145.0 km) state highway that travels southeast-to-northwest through portions of Jackson, Hall, Lumpkin, Union, and Fannin counties in the north-central part of the U.S. state of Georgia. The highway connects the Braselton area with McCaysville at the Tennessee state line, via Gainesville and Dahlonega.
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Oakwood is located southwest of the center of Hall County. It is bordered to the northeast by the city of Gainesville, the county seat, and to the southwest by the city of Flowery Branch. Interstate 985 travels through the southeastern part of Oakwood, with access from Exits 16 and 17. Via I-985 it is 48 miles (77 km) southwest to downtown Atlanta.
An early variant name was "Dip". [5] A post office called Dip was established in 1892, and the name was changed to Clermont in 1905. [6] The Georgia General Assembly incorporated the place in 1913 as the "Town of Clermont", with municipal corporate limits extending in a one-mile radius from the intersection of King and Main streets.