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The U.S. Census Bureau's official 2020 population for Chatham County was 295,291 residents. [2] This was an increase of 11.4% from the official 2010 population of 265,128 residents. [3] Chatham is the sixth most populous county in Georgia, and the most populous Georgia county outside the Atlanta metropolitan area.
Spencer Lawton Jr. (July 19, 1943 – November 13, 2024) was an American attorney. He was district attorney for Chatham County, Georgia, between 1981 and 2008, [1] and for the Eastern Judicial Circuit. [2]
The Savannah metropolitan area is located in the Coastal Georgia region, and is its most populous urban area. The three counties comprising the metropolitan area make up a total area of 1,569 square miles (4,060 km 2), roughly the size of the U.S. state of Rhode Island at 1,545 square miles (4,000 km 2).
All of Savannah and Chatham county east of I95 was evacuated ahead of Hurricane Matthew. [47] 2017 – All of Savannah and Chatham County east of I95 evacuated due to the impact of Hurricane Irma. [48] 2018 Savannah Law School closed. [49] City and county police merger ends, separating the two agencies. [50]
Savannah (/ s ə ˈ v æ n ə / sə-VAN-ə) is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia and the county seat of Chatham County.Established in 1733 on the Savannah River, the city of Savannah became the British colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and later the first state capital of Georgia. [6]
The Central of Georgia Railroad extended to Macon by 1843 and to Terminus (later known as Atlanta) by 1846. In 1828, construction began on the Savannah-Ogeechee Canal , a 16.5-mile (26.6 km) canal connecting the Ogeechee River to the southwest (near present-day Richmond Hill ) and the Savannah River, slightly to the west of Savannah's newly ...
Bloomingdale is located along the northwestern border of Chatham County at (32.124122, -81.307211). [4] It is bordered to the northeast by Port Wentworth, to the east by Pooler, to the south by a western portion of Savannah, and to the northwest by Effingham County.
Mulberry Grove Plantation, located north of Port Wentworth, Chatham County, Savannah, was a rice plantation, notable as the location where Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. [ 2 ] Once a thriving plantation, comprising, in 1798, some