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Stocks, 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.

Stocks within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

316 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 316 fires within 5 miles of Stocks 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 burning217
Arson/incendiarism34
Equipment and vehicle use22
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2

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
9 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarism13 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-LEE-012
5 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

16 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stocks in 16 storm reports between 2015 and 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
March 2020Thunderstorm WindStocks$50,000A tree fell through a home near Graves Spring Road.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindStocks$20,000Stocks Dairy Road was closed due to trees down. There was also roof damage in the area.
June 2025HailStocks$10,000Hail damaged the roof, then water started to leak into the attic.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindStocks$3,000Power lines were blown down on Big Oak Dr.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindStocks-Large tree limbs were blown down onto Highway 91 at Garrett Road and blocked one lane.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindStocks-Trees were blown down across the county, especially the southern portion of the county.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindStocks-A tree was blown down on Thundering Springs Road.
July 2021Flash FloodStocks-A couple of roads in the southeastern part of Lee county had water running over them during a 30 minute period of heavy rainfall.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindStocks-Nine trees were blown down in Lee county.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindStocks-Scattered trees were blown down in southeastern Lee county.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindStocks-A tree was blown down near Graves Springs Road and Philema Road.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindStocks-A tree was blown down off Stocks Dairy Road per a public post to the WALB-TV facebook page.
January 2026HailStocks-no account filed
March 2022HailStocks-no account filed
June 2019HailStocks-no account filed
March 2018HailStocks-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Stocks (historical)0.0 miles10
Beloit1.5 miles10
Nutview (historical)2.0 miles10
Forrester3.8 miles10
Century4.1 miles10
Chehaw4.2 miles10
Palmyra5.6 miles10
Leesburg6.8 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 334181. 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.