Coffee County, Georgia
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Congressional district | 12th |
Website | coffeecountygov |
Coffee County is a
Coffee County comprises the Douglas, Georgia
History
Coffee County was created by an act of the
Berrien (1856), Jeff Davis (1905), and Atkinson (1917) counties were subsequently formed from sections of Coffee County.
The county is named for
Coffee County Correctional Facility is located in Nicholls, Georgia. It is privately owned and operated by CoreCivic, the largest prison company in the nation.
Many of the early settlers of what is now Coffee County are buried in historic cemeteries across the region, including the cemetery at Lone Hill United Methodist Church—located at 6833 Broxton-West Green Highway, some 10 miles northeast of
Geography
According to the
The vast majority of Coffee County is located in the Satilla River sub-basin of the St. Marys-Satilla River basin. The northern corner of the county, well north of Broxton, an area bisected by State Route 107, is located in the Lower Ocmulgee River sub-basin of the Altamaha River basin. The very southwestern corner of Coffee County, northeast of Alapaha, is located in the Alapaha River sub-basin of the Suwannee River basin.[9]
Highways
- U.S. Route 221
- U.S. Route 319
- U.S. Route 441
- State Route 31
- State Route 32
- State Route 64
- State Route 90
- State Route 107
- State Route 135
- State Route 158
- State Route 206
- State Route 206 Connector
- State Route 268
Adjacent counties
- Telfair County – north
- Jeff Davis County – northeast
- Bacon County – east
- Ware County – southeast
- Atkinson County – south
- Berrien County – southwest
- Irwin County – west
- Ben Hill County – west
Communities
Cities
Unincorporated communities
Demographics
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
---|---|---|---|
1860 | 2,879 | — | |
1870 | 3,192 | 10.9% | |
1880 | 5,070 | 58.8% | |
1890 | 10,483 | 106.8% | |
1900 | 16,169 | 54.2% | |
1910 | 21,953 | 35.8% | |
1920 | 18,653 | −15.0% | |
1930 | 19,739 | 5.8% | |
1940 | 21,541 | 9.1% | |
1950 | 23,961 | 11.2% | |
1960 | 21,953 | −8.4% | |
1970 | 22,828 | 4.0% | |
1980 | 26,894 | 17.8% | |
1990 | 29,592 | 10.0% | |
2000 | 37,413 | 26.4% | |
2010 | 42,356 | 13.2% | |
2020 | 43,092 | 1.7% | |
2023 (est.) | 43,317 | [10] | 0.5% |
U.S. Decennial Census[11] 1790-1880[12]1890-1910[13] 1920-1930[14] 1930-1940[15] 1940-1950[16] 1960-1980[17] 1980-2000[18] 2010[2] 2020[1] |
Race | Num. | Perc. |
---|---|---|
White
|
24,158 | 56.06% |
Black or African American
|
11,872 | 27.55% |
Native American
|
62 | 0.14% |
Asian
|
299 | 0.69% |
Pacific Islander
|
14 | 0.03% |
Other/Mixed
|
1,257 | 2.92% |
Latino
|
5,430 | 12.6% |
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 43,092 people, 14,438 households, and 9,913 families residing in the county.
Education
Douglas is home to South Georgia State College, the oldest two-year institution under the University System of Georgia.
Politics
Like most of the Solid South, Coffee County voted with the Democrats until 1964, when Republican Barry Goldwater carried the county as well as the state. Democrat Jimmy Carter, who came from Georgia, carried the county twice. No Democrat has carried the county since then. Bill Clinton was the last Democrat to get over forty percent of the county's vote, in 1996. His two bids for president are the only times since Carter that a Democrat has kept the margin within single digits, and Michael Dukakis is the only other Democrat since Carter to garner 40 percent of the county's vote.
Year | Republican | Democratic | Third party | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | |
2020 | 10,578 | 69.53% | 4,511 | 29.65% | 125 | 0.82% |
2016 | 9,588 | 68.50% | 4,094 | 29.25% | 316 | 2.26% |
2012 | 9,248 | 63.89% | 5,057 | 34.94% | 169 | 1.17% |
2008 | 8,872 | 64.49% | 4,811 | 34.97% | 75 | 0.55% |
2004 | 8,306 | 67.35% | 3,979 | 32.26% | 48 | 0.39% |
2000 | 5,756 | 61.04% | 3,593 | 38.10% | 81 | 0.86% |
1996 | 3,934 | 48.72% | 3,407 | 42.19% | 734 | 9.09% |
1992 | 3,778 | 45.31% | 3,275 | 39.27% | 1,286 | 15.42% |
1988 | 4,019 | 58.91% | 2,777 | 40.71% | 26 | 0.38% |
1984 | 4,200 | 61.47% | 2,633 | 38.53% | 0 | 0.00% |
1980 | 2,499 | 37.74% | 4,038 | 60.99% | 84 | 1.27% |
1976 | 1,417 | 23.55% | 4,601 | 76.45% | 0 | 0.00% |
1972 | 3,934 | 86.63% | 607 | 13.37% | 0 | 0.00% |
1968 | 1,241 | 19.52% | 1,331 | 20.94% | 3,785 | 59.54% |
1964 | 4,392 | 61.76% | 2,719 | 38.24% | 0 | 0.00% |
1960 | 987 | 22.62% | 3,376 | 77.38% | 0 | 0.00% |
1956 | 574 | 15.21% | 3,199 | 84.79% | 0 | 0.00% |
1952 | 1,078 | 24.67% | 3,292 | 75.33% | 0 | 0.00% |
1948 | 309 | 7.46% | 3,168 | 76.45% | 667 | 16.10% |
1944 | 366 | 18.38% | 1,625 | 81.62% | 0 | 0.00% |
1940 | 128 | 7.56% | 1,561 | 92.15% | 5 | 0.30% |
1936 | 116 | 6.38% | 1,702 | 93.57% | 1 | 0.05% |
1932 | 29 | 1.70% | 1,652 | 97.06% | 21 | 1.23% |
1928 | 591 | 33.45% | 1,176 | 66.55% | 0 | 0.00% |
1924 | 62 | 9.54% | 510 | 78.46% | 78 | 12.00% |
1920 | 230 | 35.06% | 426 | 64.94% | 0 | 0.00% |
1916 | 120 | 5.36% | 2,091 | 93.35% | 29 | 1.29% |
1912 | 28 | 2.78% | 895 | 88.79% | 85 | 8.43% |
See also
- Coffee Road
- General Coffee State Park
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Coffee County, Georgia
- Sapps Still, Georgia
- Broxton Rocks
- List of counties in Georgia
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