Lilburn, Georgia, United States

🇺🇸 Lilburn is a city in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States. It is a part of the Atlanta metropolitan area.

Geography Lilburn is located in western Gwinnett County. U.S. Route 29 (Lawrenceville Highway) passes through the centre of town, leading south-west 19 miles (31 km) to downtown Atlanta and north-east 11 miles (18 km) to Lawrenceville, the Gwinnett County seat.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Lilburn has a total area of 6.4 square miles (16.5 km²), of which 6.3 square miles (16.4 km²) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²), or 0.82%, is water.

Transport: Road • State Route 8 • U.S. Route 29 • State Route 378

Pedestrians and cycling • Camp Creek Greenway • Norcross-Lilburn Trail (Proposed).

Historical background The city of Lilburn was founded in 1890 by the Seaboard Air Line Railway. The area previously known as "McDaniel" was renamed "Lilburn", after the general superintendent of the railroad, Lilburn Trigg Myers of Virginia. (The basis of the name change got no official mention at the time, and historical researchers did not confirm the specific link to Myers until the 1990s.) The town prospered and was incorporated as Lilburn on July 27, 1910.

A devastating fire and hard economic times in the 1920s ended the prosperity. A revitalization of the original historic area has emerged with shopping and restaurants in the Old Town district which has been described as a "slice of history".