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Shellman, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Shellman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39886. The Survey maps it on the Shellman quadrangle. 861 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 384 feet above sea level.

Shellman within Randolph County

On record in Shellman

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

Population over time

2 figures

Shellman fell from 1,083 to 861 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
20101,083
2020861-222 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

148 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Shellman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 675 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 4 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 burning86
Equipment and vehicle use26
Natural12
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
26 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-RANDOLPH-006
26 September 2005Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Natural1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-RANDOLPH-012
25 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-TERRELL-005
25 September 1996Debris and open burning3.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-TERRELL-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shellman in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 1998LightningShellman$100,000Fire destroyed more than 4,000 tons of peanuts after lightning struck a warehouse at the Locke Farm Center in Shellman.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindShellman$10,000A large tree was blown down into a home near Shellman. Monetary damage was estimated.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindShellman$5,000Minor structural damage occurred to the back wall of a warehouse.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindShellman$5,000The Randolph county 911 dispatch reported that numerous trees were blown down across the county from near Shellman westward to near Springvale. Monetary damage was estimated.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindShellman$3,000A few trees and power lines were blown down in the Shellman area.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindShellman$2,000Several trees and a power line were blown down in the Shellman area.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindShellman-Trees were blown down in the Shellman area.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindShellman-A tree was blown down across a road in Shellman.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindShellman-Trees were down at Highway 82 just north of Shellman.

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Pachitla3.5 miles7
Martins Crossroads4.3 miles7
Five Points4.8 miles7
Goffs Mill5.5 miles7
Water Pipe6.7 miles7
Aycock Mill8.2 miles7
Brooksville8.4 miles7
Shivers Mill8.6 miles7

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 ShellmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2459728The 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 356533. 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.