Since the very beginning of our efforts to "Save Tucker!," members of this group have spoken to elected officials, city advocates, at public meetings and in various forms of social media about the need to protect our Tucker zip code before anything else. For at least the past 40 or more years, Tucker, at the very least, has been identified by its own unique zip code, 30084. The zip code 30085 is also called "Tucker" but contains only the P.O. Boxes at our Tucker Post Office. The 30084 zip code has identified and unified the community because whenever anyone signed a lease or mortgage for property, they knew they were buying something that's located in Tucker. This is the shape of the Tucker zip code and its original CDP (which were one and the same): In fact, it was the zip code that was the first known "Census Designated Place" boundary set for Tucker in 2000. Then, in 2010, that boundary changed a little based on shifts in where the...
This is a blog about the small town of Tucker, Georgia, which is located just outside the major metropolitan area of Atlanta, Georgia. On March 13, 2013, the residents of Tucker learned that a small group of politically motivated individuals who lived nearby wanted to incorporate using Tucker's commercial areas and leaving many of the long-time residents on the outskirts of the new city. This is the story of how the residents have fought back to preserve history and their own community.