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Also, eight consolidated city-counties have been established in Georgia: Athens – Clarke County, Augusta – Richmond County, Columbus – Muscogee County, Georgetown – Quitman County, Statenville – Echols County, Macon – Bibb County, Cusseta – Chattahoochee County, and Preston - Webster County .
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.
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 ...
Map of the United States with Georgia highlighted. Georgia is a state located in the Southern United States.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]
Southeast Georgia is an eighteen-county region within the U.S. state of Georgia, bordering Florida. [1] The region includes a portion of Georgia's Lower Coastal Plain. Southeast Georgia's largest city is Valdosta, which forms the core of the Valdosta metropolitan area. The region's largest county by population is Lowndes, of which Valdosta is ...
The 100 county equivalents in the U.S. territories are not on this map. There are 3,244 counties and county equivalents in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ a ] The 50 states of the United States are divided into 3,007 political subdivisions of states called counties . [ 3 ]
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Crawford County, in west central Georgia, is Georgia's fifty-seventh county. The 325-square-mile (840 km 2 ) county was created on December 9, 1822, from Houston County, which had been formed from land given up by the Creek Indians in the 1821 Treaty of Indian Springs .