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.
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
- Clanton House, South side of U.S. Highway 84, 0.2 mile east of Post Office Drive, Stocktonfederal building survey, 8 photographs
- Dorch Store, North side of Branch Road, east of Roe Street, Stocktonfederal building survey, 4 photographs
- Moore House, West side of Roe Street, south of U.S. Highway 84, Stocktonfederal building survey, 4 photographs
- Timmerman House, East side of Withers Road, south of U.S. Highway 84, Stocktonfederal building survey, 5 photographs
- Troup Store, South side of U.S. Highway 84, east of Roe Street, Stocktonfederal building survey, 7 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 6 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.
- 1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Stockton quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Okefenokee Swamp quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
6 photographs, 1936Taken 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.
Mydans, Carl, photographer, 1936. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
342 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 205 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 61 |
| Natural | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 14 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-LOWNDES-010 |
| 19 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-LANIER-001 |
| 16 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-LOWNDES-010 |
| 11 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-LANIER-007 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockton | $10,000 | The Lanier County EMA reported downed trees and power lines with scattered power outages. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockton | $5,000 | Overturned farm equipment was reported along Highway 135 near the Lowndes-Lanier county border. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockton | $4,000 | Trees were blown down around the county. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockton | $2,000 | A power line was downed at Withers Road and Highway 84 in the Stockton area. |
| January 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockton | $2,000 | Some trees and power lines down on Bennett Road. Reported by the Lanier County Sheriff. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockton | - | Trees were blown down in the Stockton area. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockton | - | A tree was blown down on River Road. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockton | - | Nine or ten trees were reported down throughout Lanier county. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockton | - | Two trees were blown down in Stockton. |
| December 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Stockton | - | A tornado was sighted crossing U.S. Highway 84 by the Lanier County Fire/Rescue. No damage was reported. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Stockton | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Stockton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenwood | 1.5 miles | 6 | |
| Lakeland | 8.1 miles | 8 | |
| Teeterville | 14.2 miles | 8 |
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 Stockton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3709726 | 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 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.




