Nickleville, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Calvary-Reno census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39897. The Survey maps it on the Reno quadrangle.

Nickleville within Grady County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Whigham quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Reno quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

302 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 302 fires within 5 miles of Nickleville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 987 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 27 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	219
Arson/incendiarism	27
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Smoking	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1995	Debris and open burning	5.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	4.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-GRADY-007
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020GRADY012
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	23 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grady County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nickleville in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
November 1995	Tornado (F1)	Nickleville	$100,000	A tornado blew down many large trees and damaged five residences.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Nickleville	$20,000	A vehicle ran into a tree across the road near the intersection of Tired Creek Road and Jones Road. No injuries were reported. Damage cost was estimated.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Nickleville	$2,000	Trees and tree limbs were blown down onto power lines resulting in power outages near Farmers Branch Road as well as other scattered areas in Decatur and Grady counties.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Nickleville	$2,000	Trees and tree limbs were blown down onto power lines resulting in power outages near Farmers Branch Road as well as other scattered areas in Decatur and Grady counties.
November 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Nickleville	$1,500	Trees were blown down on Tired Creek Road. Monetary damage was estimated.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Nickleville	-	An oak tree was blocking both lanes of Old 179 South.

Every storm recorded in Grady 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sofkee (historical)	1.7 miles	12
Magnolia	2.1 miles	12
Orange Springs	2.3 miles	12
Reno	3.2 miles	12
Bethel	4.2 miles	12
Providence	4.5 miles	12
Good Hope (historical)	4.8 miles	12
Boydville	5.3 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326422. 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.