18 Facts About Tucker Georgia

In March 2016, Tucker Georgia residents elected the city's first mayor and city council.

In spite of DeKalb County delegates voting against secession from the United States, Tucker Georgia joined the Confederacy and seceded from the Union in 1861.

Tucker Georgia is in the state's Piedmont geologic region, composed of igneous and metamorphic rocks resulting from 300 to 600 million year old sediments that were subjected to high temperatures and pressures and re-exposed roughly 250 to 300 million years ago.

Over a dozen creeks originate in Tucker Georgia including Burnt Fork Creek, South Fork Peachtree Creek, Camp Creek, and Henderson Mill Creek.

Tucker Georgia includes multiple Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Pentecostal, and Presbyterian churches; Catholic, Mormon, and over a dozen non-denomination Christian churches, some holding services in Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

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Several churches including Rehoboth Baptist, established in 1854, and First Baptist of Tucker Georgia, established in 1893, maintain large youth athletic programs.

The Tucker Georgia Day celebration, first held in the 1950s, is an annual event typically including a parade, that runs the length of Main Street with food vendors, artist, musicians, and merchants.

Tucker Civic Association, Friends of Henderson Park, Friends of the Tucker Nature Preserve, Friends of Kelley C Cofer Park, and neighborhood groups regularly organize park and roadside cleanup efforts.

Tucker Georgia serves as corporate headquarters for several nationally recognized companies including; Oglethorpe Power, YP Holdings, Primo Grills and Smokers, and Inland Seafood.

Tucker Georgia is home to the Stone Mountain CID along Mountain Industrial Boulevard.

Tucker Georgia is in DeKalb County Commission Districts 1 and 4 and Super Commission District 7.

All public schools in Tucker Georgia operate under the jurisdiction DeKalb County School District.

Tucker Georgia owes the origins of its infrastructure in large measure to the efforts of former DeKalb County Commissioner, Scott Candler Sr.

Tucker Georgia residents continued the tradition of expansion by maintaining and improving these resources throughout the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.

DeKalb County continues to acquire green space in Tucker Georgia, invest in road improvement projects, and work with local committees and organizations to improve the area.

The LCI study focused to reestablishing Main Street as a central point for the greater Tucker Georgia community, create a more pedestrian-friendly and interconnected town center by encouraging walking and other modes of transportation to and around the commercial core.

The Tucker Georgia Precinct is located next to the Cofer Crossing Shopping Center.

Tucker Georgia is home to DeKalb County Fire and Rescue Department's Station 5 on Lawrenceville Hwy, and Station 22 on Montreal Road.