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Rocky Ford, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rocky Ford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30455. It stands on Mile Branch. The Survey maps it on the Rocky Ford quadrangle. 167 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 131 feet above sea level.

Rocky Ford within Screven County

Population over time

3 figures

Rocky Ford fell from 186 to 167 between 2000 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
2000186
2010144-42 (-23%)
2020167+23 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

196 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 196 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Ford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 727 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 28 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 burning113
Arson/incendiarism28
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
7 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use5.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use7.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-BULLOCH-008
20 September 1996Debris and open burning4.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-SCREVEN-010
15 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-BULLOCH-004
14 September 2012Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-BULLOCH-007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Screven County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rocky Ford in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindRocky Ford$5,000Several trees and power lines were blown down near the intersection of Scarboro Highway and Dixon Branch Road.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindRocky Ford$3,000Several trees were reported down between the 1800 and 2200 blocks of Old Rocky Ford Road.
September 2009Thunderstorm WindRocky Ford$1,500Law Enforcement reported a tree and power lines down on Old Rocky Ford Road, near Rocky Ford, Georgia.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindRocky Ford$1,000Screven County dispatch reported a tree down in the 6100 block of Rocky Ford Road.
November 2011Thunderstorm WindRocky Ford$1,000The Screven County Warning Point and a trained spotter reported 1 tree down along Highway 17 North, 2 miles east of Rocky Ford.
March 2001Thunderstorm WindRocky Ford-Coop observer reported damage to several farm buildings.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindRocky Ford-Trees and power lines down.
February 2005HailRocky Ford-no account filed
June 1996HailRocky Ford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Screven 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
Parkers2.7 miles15
Thomasboro4.4 miles15
Ogeechee4.6 miles15
Woodcliff6.4 miles15
Double Heads7.3 miles16
Zeigler8.1 miles17
Cooperville8.3 miles16
Dover8.5 miles16

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 Rocky FordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2478925The 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 321840. 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.