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Jersey, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Jersey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30018. The Survey maps it on the Jersey quadrangle. 146 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 837 feet above sea level.

Jersey within Walton County

On record in Jersey

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

Population over time

3 figures

Jersey fell from 163 to 146 between 2000 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.

YearPeople Change
2000163
2010137-26 (-16%)
2020146+9 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

144 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Jersey between 1992 and 2019, burning about 332 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 9 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 burning77
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Smoking10
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WALTON002
27 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-NEWTON-003
26 September 2010Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-WALTON-002
23 September 2010Debris and open burning5.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-NEWTON-004
20 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walton County

Storms near this place

16 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jersey in 16 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2018Thunderstorm WindJersey$20,000The Walton County 911 center reported numerous trees and power lines blown down across the county from Jersey to Monroe and Social Circle to Mt. Vernon.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindJersey$12,000The Walton County 911 Center reported several trees and power lines blown down from Jersey to Social Circle.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindJersey$7,000Powerlines and several trees down causing some damage to homes in Jersey.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindJersey$6,000The Walton County 911 center reported trees blown down from around the intersection of Gauntt Road and Lower Jersey Road near the Jersey Community to West Highland Avenue at West Spring Street and South View Drive at Reese Street in Monroe.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindJersey$6,000The Walton County 911 center reported power lines and multiple trees down across the county including in Social Circle at Alcova Drive and Laurel Lane; on Hickory Grove Church Road and on Stock Road near Nicholasville; and on Sandy Creek Road near Zingara.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindJersey$2,000Emergency manager reported trees blocking roadway at the intersection of Lower Jersey road and Cornish Mountain Church road.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindJersey$1,000Em reports tree down near jersey social circle rd and dally rd.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindJersey$1,000Tree down across roadway at the intersection of dally rd and Alcovy.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindJersey$1,000Tree down near the intersection of Dally Rd and Jersey Social Circle Rd.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindJersey$1,000Emergency Manager reports tree down along Kraddle Creek Rd.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindJersey$1,000Tree down at Maughon Rd and Barrett Wood Road.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindJersey$1,000Emergency manager reported a tree down across roadway near intersection of H D Atha Rd and Jersey Social Circle.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindJersey$1,000Powerlines down along H D Atha Rd between Jersey Social Circle Rd and Penland Rd.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindJersey$1,000The Walton County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down on Jersey Covington Road near Cornish Creek.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindJersey$250The Walton County 911 center reported that one tree was down across a road.
April 2009HailJersey-The Walton County 911 Center received several reports of penny to nickel-sized hail were received from the public.

Every storm recorded in Walton County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Alcovy Mountain2.4 miles17
Walnut Grove3.4 miles17
Whitney4.6 miles17
Herndonville5.3 miles17
Youth5.7 miles16
Social Circle5.9 miles17
Cleaton (historical)6.4 miles17
Between7.0 miles16

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 JerseyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2280052The 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 356336. 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.