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List of Georgia county name etymologies

This is a list of Georgia county name etymologies.

Alphabetical, by first letter

A

Appling County, Georgia: Appling is named for Daniel Appling , a soldier in the War of 1812.
Atkinson County, Georgia: Atkinson is named for William Yates Atkinson , the fifty-eighth governor of Georgia.

B

Bacon County, Georgia: Bacon is named for Augustus Octavius Bacon, an U. S. senator from Georgia who earlier served in the Confederate Army.
Baker County, Georgia: Baker is named for Colonel John Baker , a hero of the American Revolutionary War.
Baldwin County, Georgia: Baldwin is named for Abraham Baldwin, a signer of the United States Constitution and U.S. congressman from Georgia.
Banks County, Georgia: Banks is named for Richard Banks , a prominent physician.
Barrow County, Georgia: Barrow is named for David Crenshaw Barrow , an official of the University of Georgia.
Bartow County, Georgia: Bartow is named for Francis S. Bartow , a general killed at the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861.
Ben Hill County, Georgia: Ben Hill is named for Benjamin Harvey Hill , a state, Confederate, and U. S. congressman.
Berrien County, Georgia: Berrien is named for John MacPherson Berrien, an U. S. senator and Attorney General from Georgia.
Bibb County, Georgia: Bibb is named for William Wyatt Bibb, the first governor of Alabama and an U. S. senator from Georgia.
Bleckley County, Georgia: Bleckley is named for Logan Edwin Bleckley , a soldier and judge on the South Carolina Supreme Court .
Brantley County, Georgia: Brantley is named for either Benjamin D. Brantley , a member of a prominent local family; or William Goodman Brantley a Georgia state senator.
Brooks County, Georgia: Brooks is named for Preston Smith Brooks, an U. S. congressman from South Carolina.
Bryan County, Georgia: Bryan is named for Jonathan Bryan , a Georgian legislator in the 1600s.
Bulloch County, Georgia: Bulloch is named for Archibald Bulloch, the second governor of Georgia.
Burke County, Georgia: Burke is named for Edmund Burke, a member of the British Parliament who advised the repeal of the Stamp Act and reconciliation with the American colonies.
Butts County, Georgia: Butts is named for Sam Butts , a soldier killed in the War of 1812.

C

Calhoun County, Georgia: Calhoun is named for John Caldwell Calhoun, the seventh vice president of the United States.
Camden County, Georgia: Camden is named for Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, a member of the British Parliament who opposed the Stamp Act.
Candler County, Georgia: Candler is named for Allen Daniel Candler , the fifty-ninth governor of Georgia.
Carroll County, Georgia: Carroll is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
Catoosa County, Georgia: Catoosa is named for Catoosa, a Native American chief.
Charlton County, Georgia: Charlton is named for Robert Milledge Charlton , an U. S. senator from Georgia.
Chatham County, Georgia: Chatham is named for William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, the British Prime Minister who was sympathetic to the American cause during the period leading up to the American Revolutionary War.
Chattahoochee County, Georgia: Chattahoochee is named for the Chattahoochee River.
Chattooga County, Georgia: Chattooga is named for the Chattooga River.
Cherokee County, Georgia: Cherokee is named for the Cherokee Native American tribe.
Clarke County, Georgia: Clarke is named for Elijah Clarke , a soldier in the American Revolutionary War.
Clay County, Georgia: Clay is named for Henry Clay, the Kentucky statesman, United States Secretary of State, and presidential candiate.
Clayton County, Georgia: Clayton is named for Augustin Smith Clayton , an U. S. representative.
Clinch County, Georgia: Clinch is named for Duncan Lamont Clinch , a soldier in the First and Second Seminole Wars and U. S. representative.
Cobb County, Georgia: Cobb is named for Thomas Willis Cobb , an U. S. representative and senator.
Coffee County, Georgia: Coffee is named for John Coffee , a soldier in the War of 1812 and U. S. representative.
Colquitt County, Georgia: Colquitt is named for Walter Terry Colquitt , a local judge, clergyman, U.S. representative, and senator.
Columbia County, Georgia: Columbia is named for Christopher Columbus, the famous explorer.
Cook County, Georgia: Cook is named for Phillip Cook , a Confederate army officer and U. S. senator.
Coweta County, Georgia: Coweta is named for William McIntosh , a Coweta Native American chief and general in the U. S. Army.
Crawford County, Georgia: Crawford is named for William Harris Crawford, the U. S. statesman and Secretary of War.
Crisp County, Georgia: Crisp is named for Charles Frederick Crisp, a U. S. representative and Speaker of the House.

D

Dade County, Georgia: Dade is named for Francis Langhorne Dade , an U. S. soldier killed at the Dade Battlefield in Florida in 1835.
Dawson County, Georgia: Dawson is named for William Crosby Dawson , a judge and U. S. representative and senator.
Decatur County, Georgia: Decatur is named for Stephen Decatur, a naval hero of the War of 1812.
DeKalb County, Georgia: DeKalb is named for Johann DeKalb, a French officer in the American Revolutionary War who was killed at the Battle of Camden.
Dodge County, Georgia: Dodge is named for William Earl Dodge , an U. S. representative from New York and earlier a supporter of peace before the breakout of the American Civil War.
Dooly County, Georgia: Dooly is named for John Dooly , a Georgia militia officer killed by Loyalists in 1780.
Dougherty County, Georgia: Dougherty is named for Charles Dougherty , a local judge.
Douglas County, Georgia: Douglas is named for Stephen Arnold Douglas, the U. S. statesman and presidential rival of Abraham Lincoln.

E

Early County, Georgia: Early is named for Peter Early , the twenty-ninth governor of Georgia.
Echols County, Georgia: Echols is named for Robert M. Echols , a state legislator killed in the Mexican-American War.
Effingham County, Georgia: Effingham is named for Francis Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham , a British noble sympathetic to the American colonies.
Elbert County, Georgia: Elbert is named for Samuel Elbert , the fifteenth governor of Georgia.
Emanuel County, Georgia: Emanuel is named for David Emanuel , the twenty-fourth governor of Georgia.
Evans County, Georgia: Evans is named for Clement Anselm Evans , a judge, minister, state senator, and U. S. Army officer wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg.

F

Fannin County, Georgia: Fannin is named for James Walker Fannin, Jr., the commander of the group of Texans killed in the Goliad Massacre during the Texas Revolution.
Fayette County, Georgia: Fayette is named for the Marquis de la Fayette, the French nobleman and general in the American Revolutionary War.
Floyd County, Georgia: Floyd is named for John Floyd, a Georgia soldier and U. S. representative.
Forsyth County, Georgia: Forsyth is named for John Forsyth, the thirty-fifth governor of Georgia and the thirteenth United States Secretary of State.
Franklin County, Georgia: Franklin is named for Benjamin Franklin, the famous Founding Father, printer, scientist, philosopher, and diplomat.
Fulton County, Georgia: Fulton is named for Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat.

G

Gilmer County, Georgia: Gilmer is named for George Rockingham Gilmer , the thirty-sxth and thirty-ninth governor of Georgia.
Glascock County, Georgia: Glascock is named for Thomas Glascock , a soldier in the War of 1812 and U. S. representative.
Glynn County, Georgia: Glynn is named for John Glynn , a member of the British Parliament.
Gordon County, Georgia: Gordon is named for William Washington Gordon , a president of the Georgia Central Railroad .
Grady County, Georgia: Grady is named for Henry Woodfin Grady , a Georgia newspaperman and representative of the New York Herald.
Greene County, Georgia: Greene is named for Nathaniel Greene, the American Revolutionary War general.
Gwinnett County, Georgia: Gwinnett is named for Button Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and the third governor of Georgia who died in a duel.

H

Habersham County, Georgia: Habersham is named for Joseph Habersham, a Continental Congress member, soldier in the Continental Army, and Postmaster General of the United States.
Hall County, Georgia: Hall is named for Lyman Hall, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and the thirteenth governor of Georgia.
Hancock County, Georgia: Hancock is named for John Hancock, the signer of the Declaration of Independence and president of the Continental Congress.
Haralson County, Georgia: Haralson is named for Hugh Anderson Haralson, a Georgia militia officer and state congressman.
Harris County, Georgia: Harris is named for Charles Harris , a lawyer and mayor of Savannah, Georgia.
Hart County, Georgia: Hart is named for Nancy Morgan Hart , a woman sharpshooter and patriot in the American Revolutionary War.
Heard County, Georgia: Heard is named for Stephen Heard , the ninth governor of Georgia.
Henry County, Georgia: Henry is named for Patrick Henry, the famous patriot and governor of Virginia.
Houston County, Georgia: Houston is named for John Houston , the fifth and fourteenth governor of Georgia.

I

Irwin County, Georgia: Irwin is named for Jared Irwin , the twenty-second and twenty-seventh governor of Georgia.

J

Jackson County, Georgia: Jackson is named for James Jackson, the twenty-third governor of Georgia.
Jasper County, Georgia: Jasper is named for William Jasper, an American Revolutionary War hero who was killed at Savannah, Georgia in 1779.
Jeff Davis County, Georgia: Jeff Davis is named for Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederate States of America.
Jefferson County, Georgia: Jefferson is named for Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.
Jenkins County, Georgia: Jenkins is named for Charles Jones Jenkins , the forty-seventh governor of Georgia.
Johnson County, Georgia: Johnson is named for Herschel Vespasian Johnson, the forty-fourth governor of Georgia and a vice-presidential candidate under Stephen Arnold Douglas.
Jones County, Georgia: Jones is named for James Jones , an U. S. representative from Georgia in the late 1790s.

L

Lamar County, Georgia: Lamar is named for Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, the associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States who was a native Georgian.
Lanier County, Georgia: Lanier is named for Sidney Lanier, a poet and musician who served as a soldier in the Civil War.
Laurens County, Georgia: Laurens is named for John Laurens, a soldier in the American Revolutionary War.
Lee County, Georgia: Lee is named for Richard Henry Lee, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and a political leader during the American Revolutionary War.
Liberty County, Georgia: Liberty is named for the right and freedom of liberty.
Lincoln County, Georgia: Lincoln is named for Benjamin Lincoln, a leading general in the American Revolutionary War.
Long County, Georgia: Long is named for Crawford Williamson Long, the first physician known to have performed a surgical operation in general anesthesia induced by ether; he was a native Georgian.
Lowndes County, Georgia: Lowndes is named for William Jones Lowndes, an U.S. senator from Georgia.
Lumpkin County, Georgia: Lumpkin is named for Wilson Lumpkin , the thirty-seventh governor of Georgia.

M

Macon County, Georgia: Macon is named for Nathaniel Macon, an U.S. senator and speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina.
Madison County, Georgia: Madison is named for James Madison, the fourth president of the United States.
Marion County, Georgia: Marion is named for Francis Marion, the American Revolutionary War general whose nickname was the "Swamp Fox".
McDuffie County, Georgia: McDuffie is named for George McDuffie, the thirtieth governor of South Carolina and an U.S. senator.
McIntosh County, Georgia: McIntosh is named for William McIntosh , a Coweta Native American chief and general in the U. S. Army.
Meriwether County, Georgia: Meriwether is named for David Meriwether , an U.S. senator and state senator of Kentucky and governor of the New Mexico Territory.
Miller County, Georgia: Miller is named for Andrew Jackson Miller , a judge and U.S. congressman from Georgia.
Mitchell County, Georgia: Mitchell is named for
Monroe County, Georgia: Monroe is named for
Montgomery County, Georgia: Montgomery is named for
Morgan County, Georgia: Morgan is named for
Murray County, Georgia: Murray is named for
Muscogee County, Georgia: Muscogee is named for

N

Newton County, Georgia: Newton is named for

O

Oconee County, Georgia: Oconee is named for
Oglethorpe County, Georgia: Oglethorpe is named for James Edward Oglethorpe, the founder of the Colony (now State) of Georgia.

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List of Georgia county name etymologies

Alphabetical, by first letter

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