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Nicholson, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Nicholson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30565. The Survey maps it on the Nicholson quadrangle. 1,808 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 840 feet above sea level.

Nicholson within Jackson County

Population over time

2 figures

Nicholson grew from 1,696 to 1,808 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
20101,696
20201,808+112 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Nicholson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 210 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 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 burning44
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Debris and open burning8.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1993Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1993Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
11 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nicholson in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
May 2012Thunderstorm WindNicholson$5,000The Jackson County Emergency Manager reported that several trees and power lines were blown down in and around the Nicholson area.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindNicholson$1,000Tree downed on a c smith road .
December 2009Thunderstorm WindNicholson$1,000The Jackson County 911 Center reported that a few trees were down in the southern part of the county, south of Nicholson.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindNicholson$500Jackson county 911 reported trees down across roads in 3 different areas.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindNicholson$500Thunderstorm winds knocked several trees down across roads; powerlines were also snapped.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindNicholson-Several trees and powerlines reported down in the area of Cabin Creek Road and JS Williamson Court.
May 2012HailNicholson-Jackson County Emergency Management reported that hail up to the size of dimes fell in and around the Nicholson area. The hail lasted around 10 minutes.
July 2010HailNicholson-The public observed penny to nickel-sized hail in the southeast part of the county, four to five miles south of Nicholson. Two trees were also blown down near the intersection of U.S. Highway 441 and Georgia Highway 334.
August 1999HailNicholson-There were 2 public reports of quarter size hail.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Brockton3.4 miles14
Center4.1 miles14
Apple Valley5.1 miles13
Red Stone5.5 miles12
Thyatira5.7 miles13
Clarksboro6.1 miles14
Commerce6.4 miles14
Attica7.3 miles14

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 NicholsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q732521The 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 356429. 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.