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.
Population over time
2 figuresNicholson 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,696 | |
| 2020 | 1,808 | +112 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 14 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.
- 1891 USGS Carnesville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Nicholson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
70 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 44 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 8.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 August 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nicholson | $5,000 | The Jackson County Emergency Manager reported that several trees and power lines were blown down in and around the Nicholson area. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nicholson | $1,000 | Tree downed on a c smith road . |
| December 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nicholson | $1,000 | The Jackson County 911 Center reported that a few trees were down in the southern part of the county, south of Nicholson. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nicholson | $500 | Jackson county 911 reported trees down across roads in 3 different areas. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nicholson | $500 | Thunderstorm winds knocked several trees down across roads; powerlines were also snapped. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nicholson | - | Several trees and powerlines reported down in the area of Cabin Creek Road and JS Williamson Court. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Nicholson | - | 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 2010 | Hail | Nicholson | - | 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 1999 | Hail | Nicholson | - | There were 2 public reports of quarter size hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brockton | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Center | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Apple Valley | 5.1 miles | 13 | |
| Red Stone | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Thyatira | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| Clarksboro | 6.1 miles | 14 | |
| Commerce | 6.4 miles | 14 | |
| Attica | 7.3 miles | 14 |
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 Nicholson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q732521 | 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 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.




