Brockton, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Jefferson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30549. It stands on Parks Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nicholson quadrangle.

Brockton within Jackson County

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.

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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Brockton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 253 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 19 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	39
Arson/incendiarism	19
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	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 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
13 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2008	Natural	9.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 July 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brockton in 2 storm reports in 2025: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Brockton	$5,000	Multiple trees down near brockton loop and brockton road.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Brockton	$1,000	Fire department reported a tree down across the road near the intersection of Jefferson River Rd and Orrs School Rd.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Thyatira	2.5 miles	13
Apple Valley	2.8 miles	13
Nicholson	3.4 miles	14
Jefferson	4.1 miles	12
Red Stone	4.2 miles	12
Arcade	4.6 miles	12
Clarksboro	5.4 miles	14
Center	6.0 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 Brockton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888631	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 326196. 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.