Jacksonville, Georgia
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Jacksonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31544. It stands on Gregeory Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville quadrangle. 111 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 207 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresJacksonville fell from 140 to 111 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 | 140 | |
| 2020 | 111 | -29 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Hazlehurst quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
314 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 314 fires within 5 miles of Jacksonville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,151 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 55 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 | 167 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 55 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 46 |
| Natural | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-TELFAIR-008 |
| 29 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 11 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020TELFAIR016 |
| 21 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-COFFEE-008 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jacksonville in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonville | $50,000 | The Telfair County Emergency Manager reported trees and power lines blown down in the Jacksonville area. One tree fell onto a house on East River Road causing moderate damage to the home, no injuries were reported. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonville | $3,000 | The Telfair County 911 center reported several trees blown down along Highway 441 with one tree blocking the roadway. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonville | $2,000 | Emergency Manager reported a tree down on a powerline along Hwy 117 near Dopson Pond. |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonville | $2,000 | The Telfair County 911 Center reported that several trees were down near Jacksonville along U.S. Highway 441. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonville | $2,000 | The Telfair county 911 center reported trees down. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonville | $1,000 | Tree down on Friendship Church Rd near Hwy 117. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonville | $1,000 | The McRae fire department reported that 4 to 5 trees were blown down on Georgia Highway 117. |
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonville | $500 | The Telfair County Emergency Management Director reported that three trees were blown down in the far southern part of the county near between Jacksonville and Lumber City. |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonville | $500 | The Telfair county 911 center reported that two trees were blown down. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonville | $250 | The Telfair county Emergency Management Director reported that one tree was blown down along U.S. Highway 441 between Jacksonville and Workmore. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Jacksonville | - | The public reported nickel-sized hail. |
| January 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonville | - | The Jacksonville Post Office reported pea size hail. |
| March 2002 | Hail | Jacksonville | - | The public reported dime size hail on Georiga Highway 117. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Jacksonville | - | The Telfair county 911 center reported dime size hail. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Jacksonville | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| China Hill | 6.2 miles | 7 | |
| Cobbville | 7.3 miles | 7 | |
| Neily | 7.9 miles | 7 | |
| Workmore | 8.7 miles | 7 | |
| Sharon | 9.6 miles | 7 | |
| Temperance | 10.3 miles | 7 | |
| Cedarpark | 13.5 miles | 8 | |
| Milan | 14.8 miles | 8 |
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 Jacksonville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q261699 | 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 316026. 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.




