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Claxton is located at the center of Evans County at (32.160932, -81.908674 It is bordered to the west by the city of Hagan.U.S. Routes 280 and 301 intersect in the center of town; US 280 leads east 52 miles (84 km) to Savannah and west 36 miles (58 km) to Vidalia, while US 301 leads north 22 miles (35 km) to Statesboro and south 48 miles (77 km) to Jesup.
Evans County is a county in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,774. [1] The county seat is Claxton. [2] A bill creating the county was passed in the Georgia General Assembly on August 11, 1914, and later, on November 3, 1914, an amendment was ratified by a vote of the people which formally created the county.
Map showing the location of Evans County and the location of the cities within the county. Evans County is made up of four cities: Claxton, the county seat; Bellville, Daisy, and Hagan. With a total area of 182.85 square miles (473.6 km 2) the county is ranked 145th, in size, out of 159 counties in Georgia. [16]
In Stephen King's The Green Mile, John Coffey is wrongfully arrested in the fictional Trapingus County, Georgia. John Birmingham includes a fictional Buttecracke (pronounced Beau-cray) County, Georgia, in his Dave vs. the Monsters series of novels. We Deserve Monuments, by Jas Hammonds, takes place in the fictional Bardell County, Georgia.
U.S. Route 301 (US 301) is a 170-mile-long (270 km) U.S. Highway in the U.S. state of Georgia.It travels south-to-north from the St. Marys River south-southeast of Folkston to the Savannah River north-northeast of Sylvania, via Folkston, Jesup, Ludowici, Glennville, Claxton, Statesboro, and Sylvania.
The Evans County Courthouse is a historic government building and clock tower located in the city of Claxton, Georgia, United States, the seat of Evans County. The courthouse was built in 1923 and is the home of Evans County's Superior Court and the base of the county's government.
The Anderson County Sheriff's Office responded Friday to a 5:12 p.m. call saying plane parts had fallen into the yards of residences in the Tillery Road area of Claxton, according to a sheriff's ...
The highway connects the southern part of Marion County with Port Wentworth, via Americus, Cordele, Abbeville, McRae, Vidalia, Reidsville, Claxton, and Pembroke. The highway is concurrent with U.S. Route 280 (US 280) for about four-fifths of its length, from Americus to Blitchton, which is the easternmost 183.9 miles (296.0 km) of US 280's length.