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.
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
Bank of Jerseylisted 1984
Population over time
3 figuresJersey 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 163 | |
| 2010 | 137 | -26 (-16%) |
| 2020 | 146 | +9 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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.
- 1896 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Jersey quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
144 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 77 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020WALTON002 |
| 27 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-NEWTON-003 |
| 26 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-WALTON-002 |
| 23 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 5.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-NEWTON-004 |
| 20 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 2004Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $20,000 | The 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 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $12,000 | The Walton County 911 Center reported several trees and power lines blown down from Jersey to Social Circle. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $7,000 | Powerlines and several trees down causing some damage to homes in Jersey. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $6,000 | The 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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $6,000 | The 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $2,000 | Emergency manager reported trees blocking roadway at the intersection of Lower Jersey road and Cornish Mountain Church road. |
| February 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $1,000 | Em reports tree down near jersey social circle rd and dally rd. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $1,000 | Tree down across roadway at the intersection of dally rd and Alcovy. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $1,000 | Tree down near the intersection of Dally Rd and Jersey Social Circle Rd. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $1,000 | Emergency Manager reports tree down along Kraddle Creek Rd. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $1,000 | Tree down at Maughon Rd and Barrett Wood Road. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $1,000 | Emergency manager reported a tree down across roadway near intersection of H D Atha Rd and Jersey Social Circle. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $1,000 | Powerlines down along H D Atha Rd between Jersey Social Circle Rd and Penland Rd. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $1,000 | The Walton County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down on Jersey Covington Road near Cornish Creek. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jersey | $250 | The Walton County 911 center reported that one tree was down across a road. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Jersey | - | The Walton County 911 Center received several reports of penny to nickel-sized hail were received from the public. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alcovy Mountain | 2.4 miles | 17 | |
| Walnut Grove | 3.4 miles | 17 | |
| Whitney | 4.6 miles | 17 | |
| Herndonville | 5.3 miles | 17 | |
| Youth | 5.7 miles | 16 | |
| Social Circle | 5.9 miles | 17 | |
| Cleaton (historical) | 6.4 miles | 17 | |
| Between | 7.0 miles | 16 |
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 Jersey | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2280052 | 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 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.







