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Nickville, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Elberton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30635. It stands on Deep Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carlton quadrangle.

Nickville within Elbert County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

248 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of Nickville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 424 acres in total. 6 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 burning118
Arson/incendiarism31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use22
Smoking18
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony6

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
9 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-ELBERT-016
6 September 1996Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-ELBERT-006
27 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elbert County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Nickville: 6 prospects, 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Granite, Mica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Turner Sand OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Adams MineMicaProspect
Dewey Rose ProspectMicaProspect
Frank Mewburn ProspectMicaProspect
Pyramid QuarryGraniteProducer
Royalty Blue QuarryGraniteProducer
Sweet City QuarryGraniteProducer
Brown PropertyGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Carrington PlacerGoldProspectPlacer
King PlacerGoldProspectPlacer

Every working recorded in Elbert County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nickville in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2011: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindNickville-Multiple trees were blown down across the county.
January 2010Flash FloodNickville-Little Dove Creek overflowed the bridge on Hobbs Noggle Rd.

Every storm recorded in Elbert 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
Match3.0 miles14
Seymours Store3.1 miles14
Oglesby3.2 miles15
Dove Creek3.9 miles15
Ethridge4.4 miles15
Dewy Rose4.7 miles14
Goss4.9 miles14
Hard Cash5.2 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.

Wikidata item Q122557554The 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 332504. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.