Gillsville, Georgia
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Maysville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30543. The Survey maps it on the Gillsville quadrangle. 306 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 942 feet above sea level.
On record in Gillsville
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Gillsville Historic Districtlisted 1985
Population over time
2 figuresGillsville grew from 235 to 306 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 235 | |
| 2020 | 306 | +71 (+30%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1891 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Gillsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
157 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Gillsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 303 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 21 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 103 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 5.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-HALL-006 |
| 7 August 1995 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 August 1993 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gillsville in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gillsville | 1 killed, $30,000 | The Banks County Emergency Management Director reported that more than a dozen trees were down across the county. A number of trees were down in the western part of the county along Georgia Highway 51 and Hickory Flat Road between Gillsville and Homer, and in the eastern part of the county on Georgia Highway 51 between U.S. Highway 441 and the Franklin county line. A 70 year-old male was killed on Rock Springs Road, approximately four miles northwest of Homer, when a tree fell on his home. He was killed instantly when the tree fell on the bedroom portion of his mobile home. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gillsville | $6,000 | The Banks County Emergency Manager reported multiple trees blown down west of Homer on Carson Segars Road near Highway 323. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gillsville | $5,000 | The Banks County Emergency Manager reported trees and power lines blown down in the Gillsville area from Herbert Segars Road to around the intersection of Highway 51 and John Morris Road. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gillsville | $2,000 | EM reports two trees down near Welborn Rd near Hickory Level Creek and Queen Rd between hwy 323 and Carson Segars Rd. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Gillsville | - | The Banks County 911 Center relayed a report of nickel-sized hail southeast of Lula. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Gillsville | - | The public observed penny-sized hail near Homer. The thunderstorm producing this hail tracked east from Hall county, crossing into Banks county near Lula. The main part of the storm moved east between Homer and Hollingsworth, then continued east to the Franklin county border east of Hollingsworth. Hail of at least penny-size likely fell along the path of the thunderstorm according to radar data and reports from Hall county immediately adjacent to the west. |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maysville | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| Homer | 7.3 miles | 14 | |
| Banks Crossing | 9.6 miles | 14 | |
| Mount Pleasant | 11.0 miles | 14 | |
| Hollingsworth | 11.2 miles | 14 | |
| Alto | 11.4 miles | 14 | |
| Arp | 11.8 miles | 14 | |
| Carlan | 12.5 miles | 14 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Gillsville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2302562 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 356015. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.




