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Keysville, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Keysville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30816. It stands on Palmer Branch. The Survey maps it on the Keysville quadrangle. 300 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 262 feet above sea level.

Keysville within Burke County

On record in Keysville

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

2 figures

Keysville fell from 332 to 300 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.

YearPeople Change
2010332
2020300-32 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

246 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 246 fires within 5 miles of Keysville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,431 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 31 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 burning153
Arson/incendiarism31
Natural17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking7
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
7 September 1999Natural3.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1993Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BURKE-014
26 September 2019Debris and open burning3.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020JEFFERSON010
26 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-BURKE-026
25 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BURKE-013
24 September 1997Debris and open burning8.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burke County

Storms near this place

27 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keysville in 27 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 18 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado. 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
April 2009Tornado (EF0)Keysville$5,000An EF0 touched down just east northeasts of Keysville and took down many trees.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindKeysville$4,000Dispatch reported powerlines down in the Keysville area with outages.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindKeysville$3,000Sheriff reported trees down on George Perkins Road northwest of Waynesboro.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindKeysville$3,000Sheriff reported trees down on Hwy 305 just north of Gough.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindKeysville$2,000Fire reported powerlines down with outages in the Keysville area.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindKeysville$100ASOS unit at Daniel Field Airport in Augusta measured a peak wind gust of 49 knots, or 56 mph, at 1444 EDT (1344 EST).
June 2018Thunderstorm WindKeysville$10Burke County Sheriff Dispatch reported a tree down on Farmers Bridge Rd just north of Brier Creek.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindKeysville-DOT in Burke County reported trees down on Craig Rd near Winter Rd. Time estimated by radar.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindKeysville-A tree was downed onto a power line in the 100 block of Hopson Mill Rd near Blythe, GA. Time estimated.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindKeysville-Burker County Sheriff Dispatch reported a tree down on Hwy 88.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindKeysville-Reports of tree limbs down, ranging in size from small to large, in Keysville and vicinity.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindKeysville-Dispatch reported power lines down on Tom Bartles Road and Cobbham Road.
June 2014HailKeysville-Burke County EM reported dime size hail in Keysville lasting 5 minutes.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindKeysville-Keysville Post Office reported several limbs down, some large, along Martin Luther King Jr. Road. Dime size hail was also reported.
May 2008HailKeysville-Fire department reported golf ball size hail in Keysville.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindKeysville-Public reported large limbs down and the power out in the area.
March 2008Tornado (EF2)Keysville-A supercell spawned a tornado over Wrens in Jefferson county which moved across northern Burke county. It destroyed a church, a mobile home, and a large portion of a dairy farming business and damaged other homes and mobile homes. Numerous trees and powerlines were down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindKeysville-Sheriff reported several trees down in the Keysville area.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindKeysville-Highway dept. reported trees down on Corley road east of Keysville.
December 2005HailKeysville-Fire Dept reported quarter size hail.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindKeysville-Burke EM reported trees and powerlines down from Keysville to Vidette.
April 2003HailKeysville-Keysville FD reported 3/4 inch hail and 1.5 inches of rain.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindKeysville-EPD reports microburst took down large tree branches.
July 1997HailKeysville-EPD reports dime size hail.
June 1997HailKeysville-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindKeysville-no account filed
January 1996HailKeysville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Burke 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
Brushy Creek (historical)2.6 miles15
Dyes Crossroad4.8 miles15
Saint Clair5.8 miles15
Walker Grove Settlement6.8 miles15
Le Roy (historical)8.0 miles15
Grove Mount8.4 miles15
Gough9.8 miles16
Elmore (historical)11.2 miles15

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 KeysvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2753266The 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 316404. 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.