Georgia - County Formations

County	Organized	Parent County	County Seat
Appling	1818	1814 & 1818 ceded lands of the Creek Indians	Baxley
Atkinson	August 15, 1917	Clinch, Coffee	Pearson
Bacon	November 3, 1914	Appling, Pierce, Ware	Alma
Baker	December 12, 1825	Early	Newton
Baldwin	1803	1802 & 1805 ceded land of the Creek Indians	Milledgeville
Banks	December 11, 1858	Franklin, Habersham	Homer
Barrow	November 3, 1914	Gwinnett, Jackson, Walton	Winder
Bartow	December 2, 1832	Cherokee - Originally named Cass, renamed December 8, 1861	Cartersville
Ben Hill	November 6, 1906	Irwin, Wilcox	Fitzgerald
Berrien	1856	Coffee, Irwin, Lowndes	Nashville
Bibb	December 9, 1822	Houston, Jones, Monroe, Twiggs	Macon
Bleckley	October 2, 1912	Pulaski	Cochran
Brantley	August 14, 1920	Charlton, Pierce, Wayne	Nahunta
Brooks	1858	Lowndes, Thomas	Quitman
Bryan	December 19, 1793	Chatham	Pembroke
Bulloch	1796	Bryan, Screven	Statesboro
Burke	February 5, 1777	Original County	Waynesboro
Butts	1825	Henry, Monroe	Jackson
Calhoun	1854	Baker, Early	Morgan
Camden	February 5, 1777	Original County	Woodbine
Campbell	1828	Carroll, Coweta, DeKalb, Fayette - Merged with Fulton 1 Jan 1932	----
Candler	1914	Bullock, Emanuel, Tattnall	Metter
Carroll	1826	1826 & 1827 ceded lands of the Creek Indians	Carrollton
Catoosa	1853	Walker, Whitfield	Ringgold
Charlton	1854	Camden	Folkston
Chatham	February 5, 1777	Original County	Savannah
Chattahoochee	1854	Marion, Muscogee	Cusseta
Chattooga	1838	Floyd, Walker	Summerville
Cherokee	December 21, 1830	Ceded lands of the Cherokee Indians (Not officially ceded until 1835)	Canton
Clarke	1801	Jackson	Athens
Clay	1854	Early, Randolph	Fort Gaines
Clayton	1858	Fayette, Henry	Jonesboro
Clinch	1850	Lowndes, Ware	Homerville
Cobb	1832	Original Cherokee County	Marietta
Coffee	1854	Clinch, Irwin, Telfair, Ware	Douglas
Colquitt	1856	Lowndes, Thomas	Moultrie
Columbia	1790	Richmond	Appling
Cook	1918	Berrien	Adel
Coweta	1825	1826 & 1827 ceded lands of the Creek Indians	Newnan
Crawford	1822	Houston	Knoxville
Crisp	1905	Dooly	Cordele
Dade	1837	Walker	Trenton
Dawson	1857	Gilmer, Lumpkin	Dawsonville
Decatur	1823	Early	Bainbridge
DeKalb	1822	Fayette, Gwinnett, Henry	Decatur
Dodge	1870	Montgomery, Pulaski, Telfair	Eastman
Dooly	1821	Ceded lands of the Creek Indians	Vienna
Dougherty	1852	Baker	Albany
Douglas	1870	Campbell, Carroll	Douglasville
Early	1818	Ceded lands of the Creek Indians	Blakeley
Echols	1858	Clinch, Lowndes	Statenville
Effingham	February 5, 1777	Original County	Springfield
Elbert	1790	Wilkes	Elberton
Emanuel	1812	Bullock, Montgomery	Swainsboro
Evans	1914	Bullock, Tattnall	Claxton
Fannin	1854	Gilmer, Union	Blue Ridge
Fayette	1821	Ceded lands of the Creek Indians	Fayetteville
Floyd	1832	Original Cherokee	Rome
Forsyth	1832	Original Cherokee	Cumming
Franklin	1784	Ceded lands of the Cherokee Indians	Carnesville
Fulton	December 20, 1853	DeKalb - Includes the former counties of Campbell and Milton	Atlanta
Gilmer	1832	Original Cherokee	Ellijay
Glascock	1857	Warren	Gibson
Glynn	February 5, 1777	Original County	Brunswick
Gordon	1850	Cass, Floyd	Calhoun
Grady	1905	Decatur, Thomas	Cairo
Greene	1786	Washington	Greensboro
Gwinnett	1818	Ceded lands of the Cherokee & Creek Indians	Lawrenceville
Habersham	1818	Ceded lands of the Cherokee Indians	Clarksville
Hall	1818	Ceded lands of the Cherokee Indians	Gainesville
Hancock	1793	Greene, Washington	Sparta
Haralson	1856	Carroll, Polk	Buchanan
Harris	1827	Muscogee, Troup	Hamilton
Hart	1853	Elbert, Franklin	Hartwell
Heard	1830	Carroll, Coweta, Troup	Franklin
Henry	1821	Ceded lands of the Creek Indians	McDonough
Houston	1821	Ceded lands of the Creek Indians	Perry
Irwin	1818	1814 & 1818 ceded lands of the Creek Indians	Ocilla
Jackson	1796	Franklin	Jefferson
Jasper	1812	Baldwin	Monticello
Jeff Davis	1905	Appling, Coffee	Hazlehurst
Jefferson	1796	Burke, Warren	Louisville
Jenkins	1905	Bullock, Burke, Emanuel, Screven	Millen
Johnson	1858	Emanuel, Laurens, Washington	Wrightsville
Jones	1807	Baldwin, Bibb, Putnam	Gray
Lamar	1920	Monroe, Pike	Barnesville
Lanier	1920	Berrien, Clinch, Lowndes	Lakeland
Laurens	1807	Wilkinson	Dublin
Lee	1826	Ceded lands of the Creek Indians	Leesburg
Liberty	February 5, 1777	Original County	Hinesville
Lincoln	1796	Wilkes	Lincolnton
Long	1920	Liberty	Ludowici
Lowndes	1825	Irwin	Valdosta
Lumpkin	1832	Cherokee, Habersham, Hall	Dahlonega
Macon	1837	Houston, Marion	Oglethorpe
Madison	1811	Clarke, Elbert, Franklin, Jackson, Oglethorpe	Danielsville
Marion	1827	Lee, Muscogee	Buena Vista
McDuffie	1870	Columbia, Warren	Thomson
McIntosh	1793	Liberty	Darien
Meriwether	1827	Troup	Greenville
Miller	1856	Baker, Early	Colquitt
Milton	1857	Cherokee, Cobb, Forsyth - Merged with Fulton in 1932	----
Mitchell	1857	Baker	Camilla
Monroe	1821	Ceded lands of the Creek Indians	Forsyth
Montgomery	1793	Washington	Mt. Vernon
Morgan	1807	Baldwin	Madison
Murray	1832	Cherokee	Chatsworth
Muscogee	1826	Ceded lands of the Creek Indians	Columbus
Newton	1821	Henry, Jasper, Walton	Covington
Oconee	1875	Clarke	Watkinsville
Oglethorpe	1793	Wilkes	Lexington
Paulding	1832	Cherokee	Dallas
Peach	1924	Houston, Macon	Fort Valley
Pickens	1853	Cherokee, Gilmer	Jasper
Pierce	1857	Appling, Ware	Blackshear
Pike	1822	Monroe	Zebulon
Polk	1851	Floyd, Paulding	Cedartown
Pulaski	1808	Laurens	Hawkinsville
Putnam	1807	Baldwin	Eatonton
Quitman	1858	Randolph, Stewart	Georgetown
Rabun	1819	Ceded lands of the Cherokee Indians	Clayton
Randolph	December 20, 1828	Lee	Cuthbert
Richmond	February 5, 1777	Original County	Augusta
Rockdale	October 18, 1870	Henry, Newton	Conyers
Schley	1857	Marion, Sumter	Ellaville
Screven	1793	Burke, Effingham	Sylvania
Seminole	1920	Decatur, Early	Donalsonville
Spalding	1851	Fayett, Henry, Pike	Griffin
Stephens	1905	Franklin, Habersham	Toccoa
Stewart	1830	Randolph	Lumpkin
Sumter	1831	Lee	Americus
Talbot	1827	Muscogee	Talbotton
Taliaferro	1825	Green, Hancock, Oglethorpe, Warren, Wilkes	Crawfordville
Tattnall	1801	Montgomery	Reidsville
Taylor	1852	Macon, Marion, Talbot	Butler
Telfair	1807	Wilkinson	McRae
Terrell	1856	Lee, Randolph	Dawson
Thomas	1825	Decatur, Irwin	Thomasville
Tift	1905	Berrien, Irwin, Worth	Tifton
Toombs	1905	Emanuel, Montgomery, Tattnall	Lyons
Towns	1856	Rabun, Union	Hiawassee
Treutlen	1917	Emanuel, Montgomery	Soperton
Troup	1826	Ceded lands of the Creek Indians	LaGrange
Turner	1905	Dooly, Irwin, Wilcox, Worth	Ashburn
Twiggs	1809	Wilkinson	Jeffersonville
Union	1832	Cherokee	Blairsville
Upson	1824	Crawford, Pike	Thomaston
Walker	1833	Murray	LaFayette
Walton	1818	Creek Indians land	Monroe
Walton (old)	1803-1811	Now part of NC	----
Ware	1824	Appling	Waycross
Warren	1793	Columbia, Richmond, Wilkes	Warrenton
Washington	1784	Ceded lands of the Creek Indians	Sandersville
Wayne	1803	Ceded lands of the Creek Indians	Jesup
Webster	December 16, 1853	Stewart - Originally named Kinchafoonee, renamed February 21, 1856	Preston
Wheeler	1912	Montgomery	Alamo
White	1857	Habersham	Cleveland
Whitfield	1851	Murray	Dalton
Wilcox	1857	Dooly, Irwin, Pulaski	Abbeville
Wilkes	February 5, 1777	Original County	Washington
Wilkinson	1803	Ceded lands of the Creek Indians	Irwinton
Worth	1853	Dooly, Irwin	Sylvester

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