Editing North High Shoals, Georgia

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'''North High Shoals''' is a town in [[Oconee County, Georgia|Oconee County]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], United States. The population was 652 at the 2010 census.

==History==
The [[Georgia General Assembly]] incorporated North High Shoals as a town in 1933.<ref>{{cite book|title=Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yJQpB0jTJ7oC|year=1933|publisher=Clark & Hines, State Printers|page=1041|quote=North High Shoal, Incoroprated}}</ref> The community was named after [[shoal]]s in the [[Apalachee River (Georgia)|Apalachee River]].<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/n.pdf| title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=160 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}}</ref>

==Geography==

North High Shoals is located at {{coord|33|50|3|N|83|30|4|W|type:city}} (33.834159, -83.501055).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=April 23, 2011|date=February 12, 2011|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref>

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of {{convert|2.5|sqmi|km2}}, all land.

==Government==
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The town's government consists of a Town Council made up of a mayor and five council members.  As of January 1, 2020, these were:
Toby P. Bradberry, Mayor;
Eric Carlson, Council Member, Post 1;
Jason Presley, Council Member, Post 2;
Ann Evans, Council Member, Post 3;
Hilda Kurtz, Council Member, Post 4;
and Violet Dawe, Council Member, Post 5.

Meetings are held on the third Monday of each month at 7:30 pm at the town hall, located at 260 Hillsboro Road.

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1950= 124
|1960= 122
|1970= 165
|1980= 256
|1990= 268
|2000= 439
|2010= 652
|2020= 552
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
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{| class="wikitable"
|+North High Shoals racial composition as of 2020<ref>{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US1356308&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=December 17, 2021|website=data.census.gov}}</ref>
!Race
!Num.
!Perc.
|-
|[[White (U.S. Census)|White]] (non-Hispanic)
|500
|90.58%
|-
|[[African American (U.S. Census)|Black or African American]] (non-Hispanic)
|7
|1.27%
|-
|[[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]]
|3
|0.54%
|-
|[[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]]
|1
|0.18%
|-
|[[Race (United States Census)|Other/Mixed]]
|19
|3.44%
|-
|[[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]]
|22
|3.99%
|}
As of the [[2020 United States census]], there were 552 people, 148 households, and 131 families residing in the town.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.northhighshoals.org Town's Website]
{{Oconee County, Georgia}}

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[[Category:Towns in Oconee County, Georgia]]
[[Category:Towns in Georgia (U.S. state)]]
[[Category:Athens – Clarke County metropolitan area]]