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.
Population over time
3 figuresRocky 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 186 | |
| 2010 | 144 | -42 (-23%) |
| 2020 | 167 | +23 (+16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1921 USGS Rocky Ford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Millen quadrangle1:125000
- 1943 USGS Rocky Ford quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Rocky Ford quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
196 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 113 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 28 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 9 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2013-BULLOCH-008 |
| 20 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | 4.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-SCREVEN-010 |
| 15 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2016-BULLOCH-004 |
| 14 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2013-BULLOCH-007 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rocky Ford | $5,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down near the intersection of Scarboro Highway and Dixon Branch Road. |
| April 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rocky Ford | $3,000 | Several trees were reported down between the 1800 and 2200 blocks of Old Rocky Ford Road. |
| September 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rocky Ford | $1,500 | Law Enforcement reported a tree and power lines down on Old Rocky Ford Road, near Rocky Ford, Georgia. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rocky Ford | $1,000 | Screven County dispatch reported a tree down in the 6100 block of Rocky Ford Road. |
| November 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rocky Ford | $1,000 | The Screven County Warning Point and a trained spotter reported 1 tree down along Highway 17 North, 2 miles east of Rocky Ford. |
| March 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rocky Ford | - | Coop observer reported damage to several farm buildings. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rocky Ford | - | Trees and power lines down. |
| February 2005 | Hail | Rocky Ford | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Rocky Ford | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkers | 2.7 miles | 15 | |
| Thomasboro | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Ogeechee | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Woodcliff | 6.4 miles | 15 | |
| Double Heads | 7.3 miles | 16 | |
| Zeigler | 8.1 miles | 17 | |
| Cooperville | 8.3 miles | 16 | |
| Dover | 8.5 miles | 16 |
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 Ford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2478925 | 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 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.









