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On February 5, 1777, the original eight counties of the state were created: Burke, Camden, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, Richmond, and Wilkes. Georgia has the second-largest number of counties of any state in the United States, only behind Texas, which has 254 counties. [ 1]
The map to the right shows the county boundaries for all 159 counties in Georgia. 149 of the 159 counties in the state are governed by a committee made of between three and eleven commissioners [5] while the other 10 counties are overseen by a single commissioner. All commissioners are elected by the voters of their county for terms that range ...
According to the 2010 United States census, Georgia was the 8th most populous state with 9,688,681 inhabitants and the 21st largest by land area spanning 57,513.49 square miles (148,959.3 km 2) of land. [1] Georgia is divided into 159 counties and contains 535 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, consolidated city-counties, and ...
Pond Town was the temporary county seat of Lee County, Georgia when the county was first established from Muscogee (Creek) Nation lands in 1826. The county was very large and otherwise lacked European-American settlement. It was replaced in 1828. Pond Town evolved to become the town of Ellaville and became the county seat of Schley County in 1857.
According to 2023 U.S. Census data, the average population of Alabama's 67 counties is 76,246, with Jefferson County as the most populous (662,895), and Greene County (7,341) the least. [ 7] The average land area is 756 sq mi (1,958 km 2 ). The largest county is Baldwin (1,590 sq mi, 4,118 km 2) and the smallest is Etowah (535 sq mi, 1,386 km 2 ...
Baldwin County, Georgia (7 C, 8 P) Banks County, Georgia (6 C, 5 P) Barrow County, Georgia (6 C, 4 P) Bartow County, Georgia (6 C, 8 P) Ben Hill County, Georgia (6 C, 4 P) Berrien County, Georgia (5 C, 5 P) Bibb County, Georgia (6 C, 5 P) Bleckley County, Georgia (5 C, 4 P)
List of area codes. 229 – Albany, Thomasville, Valdosta, Tifton, Cairo Georgia, Fitzgerald and Americus (southwest Georgia) 404 – Atlanta and immediate environs (central Fulton and DeKalb counties) 470 – Atlanta and its suburbs, overlay area code that covers same area as 678, 770, and 943. 478 – Macon, Forsyth, Fort Valley, Warner ...
Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the northwest, North Carolina to the north, South Carolina to the northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, Florida to the south, and Alabama to the west. Of the 50 United States, Georgia is the 24th-largest by ...