Butts County, Georgia
| Butts County, Georgia | |
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Butts County Courthouse in Jackson
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 Location in the U.S. state of Georgia |
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 Georgia's location in the U.S. |
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| Founded | 1825 |
| Named for | Samuel Butts |
| Seat | Jackson |
| Largest city | Jackson |
| Area | |
| • Total | 188 sq mi (487 km2) |
| • Land | 184 sq mi (477 km2) |
| • Water | 3.6 sq mi (9 km2), 1.9% |
| Population (est.) | |
| • (2010) | 23,593 |
| • Density | 128/sq mi (49/km²) |
| Congressional district | 10th |
| Time zone | Eastern: UTC-5/-4 |
| Website | buttscountyga |
Butts County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 23,655. The county seat is Jackson. The county was created on December 24, 1825.
Butts County is included in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area.
In 2010, the center of population of Georgia was located in the northeastern portion of the county.
Butts County has one radio station: WJGA FM 92.1 and one local newspaper, the Jackson Progress-Argus.
Butts County was formed on December 24, 1825 as the sixty-fourth county in Georgia from portions of Henry County and Monroe County. It was named by the Georgia General Assembly in honor of Samuel Butts, an officer who was killed in the Creek War in 1814. A year later, Jackson was created as the first city in the new county and became the county seat. Other towns followed, including Indian Springs (1837); Flovilla (1883); Jenkinsburg (1889); and Pepperton (1897). Indian Springs later disincorporated and Pepperton was merged with Jackson in 1966, leaving just three incorporated cities in Butts County. In recent years, Indian Springs has again become a tourist destination including many historic sites, shops, eating establishment and the famous Indian Springs Hotel as its centerpiece.
Much of Butts County and its cities were destroyed by the army of General William T. Sherman in its infamous March to the Sea during the American Civil War. Butts County struggled for decades afterwards to become economically stable again. The arrival of the first railroad train on May 5, 1882 started the resurgence and growth followed. In 1898, caught up in the post-reconstruction fervor that had infected most Georgia counties, Butts County erected a monumental courthouse as a sign of its new prosperity. This building is still in use as a courthouse to this day. The construction of the Lloyd Shoals dam in 1910 created Jackson Lake, a prime recreational lake located primarily in Butts County.
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