BlockStocks, Georgia
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Philema census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31763. The Survey maps it on the Albany NE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Albany NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
316 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 316 fires within 5 miles of Stocks (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 893 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 34 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 | 217 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 34 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 21 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 13 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-LEE-012 |
| 5 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2009 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 343405. 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.