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.
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
Hopeful Baptist Churchlisted 1993
Population over time
2 figuresKeysville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 332 | |
| 2020 | 300 | -32 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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.
- 1919 USGS Gough quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Gough quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Keysville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Thomson quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
246 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 153 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 31 |
| Natural | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1999 | Natural | 3.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-BURKE-014 |
| 26 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020JEFFERSON010 |
| 26 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-BURKE-026 |
| 25 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-BURKE-013 |
| 24 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 8.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
27 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Keysville | $5,000 | An EF0 touched down just east northeasts of Keysville and took down many trees. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | $4,000 | Dispatch reported powerlines down in the Keysville area with outages. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | $3,000 | Sheriff reported trees down on George Perkins Road northwest of Waynesboro. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | $3,000 | Sheriff reported trees down on Hwy 305 just north of Gough. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | $2,000 | Fire reported powerlines down with outages in the Keysville area. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | $100 | ASOS unit at Daniel Field Airport in Augusta measured a peak wind gust of 49 knots, or 56 mph, at 1444 EDT (1344 EST). |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | $10 | Burke County Sheriff Dispatch reported a tree down on Farmers Bridge Rd just north of Brier Creek. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | DOT in Burke County reported trees down on Craig Rd near Winter Rd. Time estimated by radar. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | A tree was downed onto a power line in the 100 block of Hopson Mill Rd near Blythe, GA. Time estimated. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | Burker County Sheriff Dispatch reported a tree down on Hwy 88. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | Reports of tree limbs down, ranging in size from small to large, in Keysville and vicinity. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | Dispatch reported power lines down on Tom Bartles Road and Cobbham Road. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Keysville | - | Burke County EM reported dime size hail in Keysville lasting 5 minutes. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | Keysville Post Office reported several limbs down, some large, along Martin Luther King Jr. Road. Dime size hail was also reported. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Keysville | - | Fire department reported golf ball size hail in Keysville. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | Public reported large limbs down and the power out in the area. |
| March 2008 | Tornado (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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | Sheriff reported several trees down in the Keysville area. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | Highway dept. reported trees down on Corley road east of Keysville. |
| December 2005 | Hail | Keysville | - | Fire Dept reported quarter size hail. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | Burke EM reported trees and powerlines down from Keysville to Vidette. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Keysville | - | Keysville FD reported 3/4 inch hail and 1.5 inches of rain. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | EPD reports microburst took down large tree branches. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Keysville | - | EPD reports dime size hail. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Keysville | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | no account filed |
| January 1996 | Hail | Keysville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brushy Creek (historical) | 2.6 miles | 15 | |
| Dyes Crossroad | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Saint Clair | 5.8 miles | 15 | |
| Walker Grove Settlement | 6.8 miles | 15 | |
| Le Roy (historical) | 8.0 miles | 15 | |
| Grove Mount | 8.4 miles | 15 | |
| Gough | 9.8 miles | 16 | |
| Elmore (historical) | 11.2 miles | 15 |
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 Keysville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2753266 | 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 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.








