1 of Dock Junction’s places is on the National Register
More historic than 44% of U.S. towns · #129 of 263 in Georgia. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Ballard School. Most of Dock Junction was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1984. Below: maps from 1918 on and the census since 1950.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Dock Junction is more historic than 44% of U.S. towns, #129 of 263 in Georgia. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Dock Junction’s overall grade.
Georgia towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Georgia town has 10.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Dock Junction’s 9.8 sits near the middle of its state (53% of Georgia towns have fewer) while its 8 historic buildings outnumber those of 74% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on two of the three inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. The pre-1940 share (±2.8 points) is firm at this size.
Founding year: our sources. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Dock Junction’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Parkwood
1906–1917
Arco
1920–1948
19001960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
ArcoAtlantic Village Mobile Home ParkBel AirBenedictBrunswick VillaCoxDriftwood Mobile Home ParkEllis PointGlendale GardensGlenwood EstatesGlyncoGlyndaleGlynn HeightsGordon HeightsParade RestParkwoodPine ForestPine RidgePinehurstPineview
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
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Start Dock Junction’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Dock Junction’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Dock Junction. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1918Bladen sheet · 1:62,500
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Dock Junction.
The story so far
Dock Junction, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Dock Junction yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Dock Junction is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Glynn County, Georgia, United States. It is part of the Brunswick metropolitan statistical area. The population was 7,721 at the 2010 census, growing to 8,266 in 2020. Its original name was Arco until the 1970s, the name deriving from the Atlantic Refining Company.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 7,721 to 8,266 (+7%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Dock Junction, 1906 to 1948
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Dock Junction is more historic than 44% of U.S. towns, #129 of 263 in Georgia. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Dock Junction?
One place: the Ballard School (listed 2004).
How old are the homes in Dock Junction?
4% of Dock Junction’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±2.8 points), against a typical 3.8% for a Georgia town; the median home was built in 1984.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikimedia Commons (6), the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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