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Stockton, Georgia

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the East Lanier census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31649. The Survey maps it on the Stockton quadrangle. 135 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 190 feet above sea level.

Stockton within Lanier County

On record in Stockton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 5 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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.

Photographs

6 photographs, 1936

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Tobacco going to market near Stockton, Georgia
Tobacco going to market near Stockton, Georgia
Mydans, Carl, photographer, 1936. Library of Congress
Timmerman House, East side of Withers Road, south of U.S. Highway 84, Stockton, Lanier County, GA
Timmerman House, East side of Withers Road, south of U.S. Highway 84, Stockton, Lanier County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Troup Store, South side of U.S. Highway 84, east of Roe Street, Stockton, Lanier County, GA
Troup Store, South side of U.S. Highway 84, east of Roe Street, Stockton, Lanier County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Clanton House, South side of U.S. Highway 84, 0.2 mile east of Post Office Drive, Stockton, Lanier County, GA
Clanton House, South side of U.S. Highway 84, 0.2 mile east of Post Office Drive, Stockton, Lanier County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Moore House, West side of Roe Street, south of U.S. Highway 84, Stockton, Lanier County, GA
Moore House, West side of Roe Street, south of U.S. Highway 84, Stockton, Lanier County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Dorch Store, North side of Branch Road, east of Roe Street, Stockton, Lanier County, GA
Dorch Store, North side of Branch Road, east of Roe Street, Stockton, Lanier County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

342 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 342 fires within 5 miles of Stockton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,391 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 61 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 burning205
Arson/incendiarism61
Natural24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use14
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony2

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 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Arson/incendiarism14 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1997Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-LOWNDES-010
19 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-LANIER-001
16 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-LOWNDES-010
11 September 2002Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-LANIER-007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lanier County

Storms near this place

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stockton in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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
April 2000Thunderstorm WindStockton$10,000The Lanier County EMA reported downed trees and power lines with scattered power outages.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindStockton$5,000Overturned farm equipment was reported along Highway 135 near the Lowndes-Lanier county border.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindStockton$4,000Trees were blown down around the county. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindStockton$2,000A power line was downed at Withers Road and Highway 84 in the Stockton area.
January 2002Thunderstorm WindStockton$2,000Some trees and power lines down on Bennett Road. Reported by the Lanier County Sheriff.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindStockton-Trees were blown down in the Stockton area.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindStockton-A tree was blown down on River Road.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindStockton-Nine or ten trees were reported down throughout Lanier county.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindStockton-Two trees were blown down in Stockton.
December 2005Tornado (F0)Stockton-A tornado was sighted crossing U.S. Highway 84 by the Lanier County Fire/Rescue. No damage was reported.
March 2024HailStockton-no account filed
April 2020HailStockton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lanier 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
Greenwood1.5 miles6
Lakeland8.1 miles8
Teeterville14.2 miles8

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 StocktonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3709726The 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 356565. 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.