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In 1990, the governments of Clarke county and the city of Athens merged to form the Athens-Clarke County unified government. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Gwen O’Looney, 1991-1998 [ 17 ]
The Athens-Clarke County Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of four counties - Clarke, Madison, Oconee, and Oglethorpe - in northeastern Georgia, anchored by the city of Athens. As of the 2020 census, the MSA had a population of 215,479. [1]
Athens is the sixth-most populous city in Georgia, and the principal city of the Athens metropolitan area, [9] which had a 2020 population of 215,415, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. [4] Metropolitan Athens is a component of the larger Atlanta–Athens–Clarke County–Sandy Springs Combined Statistical Area .
Pages in category "Athens – Clarke County metropolitan area" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
On March 29, 1973, the Georgia legislature increased the number of county commissioners from 3 to 5, also adding a county administrator. In 1990, the residents voted to unify the city and county governments creating Athens-Clarke County, the second (after Columbus-Muscogee County) unified city-county government in the State of Georgia.
Nancy Denson is an American politician who served as mayor of U.S. city of Athens, Georgia, from 2011 to 2019. First elected mayor in 2010 and re-elected in 2014, Denson has been in public service since 1980 starting as an Athens City Council member.
It is the location of White Hall (Whitehall, Georgia), at Whitehall and Simonton Bridge Roads, a property which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1] The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Whitehall as a town in 1891. [2] Today, Whitehall is a neighborhood of Athens.
Downtown Athens is the oldest of the main commercial and residential centers in Athens, Georgia, United States.Downtown is generally considered to be the area bounded by Dougherty Street on the north, Broad Street and the University of Georgia campus on the south, Pulaski Street on the west, and Foundry Street by the east.