Stockton, GA

Stockton is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lanier County, Georgia, United States. Stockton is located in the far southern portion of the state on U.S. Highway 84, near Valdosta and Lakeland. The surrounding area produces tobacco, turpentine, pine lumber, and pulpwood. The short version is that Stockton carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Stockton: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Moody Air Force Base is located nearby, and transport is provided mainly by U.S. Route 84 and U.S. Route 129. Stockton is located near the Alapaha River and CSX Transportation runs through Stockton at least twice a day. The community was named after one Mr.