Editing Quitman County, Georgia

{{Short description|County in Georgia, United States}}
{{Distinguish|Quitman, Georgia}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}}
{{Infobox U.S. county
 | county       = Quitman County
 | state               = Georgia
 | seal                 = Seal of Georgetown-Quitman County, Georgia.png
 | seal size            = 90px
 | founded year         = {{start date and age|1858}}
 | founded date    = December 10
 | seat                 = [[Georgetown, Quitman County, Georgia|Georgetown]]
 | coordinates          = {{Coord|31.86|-85.01|display=title,inline|type:adm2nd_region:US-GA_source:UScensus1990}}
 | largest city     = Georgetown
 | area_total_sq_mi     = 161
 | area_land_sq_mi      = 151
 | area_water_sq_mi     = 9.3
 | area percentage      = 5.8%
 | census yr            = 2020
 | pop                  = 2235
 | pop_est_as_of        = 2023
 | population_est       = 2280 {{gain}}
 | density_sq_mi        = auto
 | time zone           = Eastern
 | website              = {{URL|https://www.gqc-ga.org/|gqc-ga.org}}
 | ex image             = Quitman County Courthouse; Georgetown, GA.JPG
 | ex image cap         = [[Quitman County Courthouse]] in Georgetown
 | district             = 2nd
 | named for            = [[John A. Quitman]] }}

'''Quitman County''' is a [[County (United States)|county]] located in the southwestern part of the [[U.S. state]] of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]. As of the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]], the population was 2,235,<ref>{{cite web|title=Census - Geography Profile: Quitman County, Georgia|url=https://data.census.gov/profile/Quitman_County,_Georgia?g=0500000US13239|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=December 28, 2022}}</ref> making it the second-least populous county in Georgia. The [[county seat]] is [[Georgetown, Quitman County, Georgia|Georgetown]].<ref name="GR6">{{cite web|url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |access-date=June 7, 2011 |title=Find a County |publisher=National Association of Counties |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531210815/http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |archive-date=May 31, 2011 }}</ref> The county was created on December 10, 1858, and named after General [[John A. Quitman]], leader in the [[Mexican–American War]], and once [[Governor of Mississippi]]. In November 2006, residents voted to consolidate the city government of Georgetown and the county government of Quitman into a [[consolidated city-county]].

==Geography==
According to the [[U.S. Census Bureau]], the county has a total area of {{convert|161|sqmi}}, of which {{convert|151|sqmi}} is land and {{convert|9.3|sqmi}} (5.8%) is water.<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=April 23, 2011|date=February 12, 2011|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref> The entirety of Quitman County is located in the Middle [[Chattahoochee River]]–[[Walter F. George Lake]] sub-basin of the [[ACF River Basin]] (Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gaswcc.org/maps/ |title=Georgia Soil and Water Conservation Commission Interactive Mapping Experience |publisher=Georgia Soil and Water Conservation Commission |access-date=November 24, 2015}}</ref>

===Major highways===
* [[File:US 82.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 82 in Georgia|U.S. Route 82]]
* [[File:Georgia 27.svg|20px]] [[Georgia State Route 27|State Route 27]]
* [[File:Georgia 39.svg|20px]] [[Georgia State Route 39|State Route 39]]
* [[File:Georgia 50.svg|20px]] [[Georgia State Route 50|State Route 50]]

===Adjacent counties===
* [[Stewart County, Georgia|Stewart County]] (north)
* [[Randolph County, Georgia|Randolph County]] (east)
* [[Clay County, Georgia|Clay County]] (south)
* [[Barbour County, Alabama|Barbour County]], [[Alabama]] (west/CST Border)

===National protected area===
* [[Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge]] (part)

==Communities==
===City===
* [[Georgetown, Quitman County, Georgia|Georgetown]] (county seat)

===Unincorporated community===
* [[Morris, Georgia|Morris]]

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
| align = left
| 1860 = 3499
| 1870 = 4150
| 1880 = 4392
| 1890 = 4471
| 1900 = 4701
| 1910 = 4594
| 1920 = 3417
| 1930 = 3820
| 1940 = 3435
| 1950 = 3015
| 1960 = 2432
| 1970 = 2180
| 1980 = 2357
| 1990 = 2209
| 2000 = 2598
| 2010 = 2513
| 2020 = 2235
|estyear=2023
|estimate=2280
|estref=<ref name="USCensusEst2023">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/tables.html|title=Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Counties: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2023|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=March 31, 2024}}</ref>
| align-fn = center
| footnote = U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade.html|title=Decennial Census of Population and Housing by Decades|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=}}</ref><br>1790-1880<ref name=1880CensusGACty>{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink=   |title= 1880 Census Population by Counties 1790-1800 |publisher=United States Census Bureau|date= 1880|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1880/vol-01-population/1880_v1-08.pdf|accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=|page=}}</ref> 1890-1910<ref name=1910CensusGA>{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink=   |title= 1910 Census of Population - Georgia  |publisher=United States Census Bureau|date= 1910|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1910/abstract/supplement-ga.pdf |accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=|page=}}</ref><br> 1920-1930<ref name=1930CensusGA>{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink=   |title= 1930 Census of Population - Georgia  |publisher=United States Census Bureau|date= 1930|url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/03815512v1ch04.pdf |accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=|page=}}</ref> 1930-1940<ref name=1940CensusGA>{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink=   |title= 1940 Census of Population - Georgia  |publisher=United States Census Bureau|date= 1940|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1940/population-volume-1/33973538v1ch04.pdf |accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=}}</ref><br> 1940-1950<ref name=1950CensusGA>{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink=   |title= 1950 Census of Population - Georgia - |publisher=United States Census Bureau|date= 1950|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1950/population-volume-2/37779083v2p11ch2.pdf |accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=}}</ref> 1960-1980<ref name=1980CensusGA>{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink=   |title= 1980 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - Georgia  |publisher=United States Census Bureau|date= 1980|url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1980a_gaABC-01.pdf|accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=}}</ref><br> 1980-2000<ref name=2000CensusGA>{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink=   |title= 2000 Census of Population - Population and Housing Unit Counts - Georgia  |publisher=United States Census Bureau|date= 2000|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2003/dec/phc-3-12.pdf |accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=}}</ref> 2010<ref name="QF">{{cite web|title=State & County QuickFacts|url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/13/13239.html|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=June 25, 2014|archive-date=June 7, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607132438/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/13/13239.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
}}

===2020 census===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+'''Quitman County, Georgia – Racial and ethnic composition'''<br><small>{{nobold|''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.''}}</small>
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(''NH = Non-Hispanic'')</small>
!Pop 2000<ref name=2000CensusP004>{{Cite web|title=P004: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2000: DEC Summary File 1 – Quitman County, Georgia |url=https://data.census.gov/table?g=050XX00US13239&tid=DECENNIALSF12000.P004|website=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date= }}</ref>
!Pop 2010<ref name=2010CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Quitman County, Georgia |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=050XX00US13239&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date= }}</ref>
!{{partial|Pop 2020}}<ref name=2020CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Quitman County, Georgia |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=050XX00US13239&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date= }}</ref>
!% 2000
!% 2010
!{{partial|% 2020}}
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] alone (NH)
|1,351
|1,265
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,190
|52.00%
|50.34%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |53.24%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)
|1,213
|1,198
|style='background: #ffffe6; |917
|46.69%
|47.67%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |41.03%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)
|5
|3
|style='background: #ffffe6; |13
|0.19%
|0.12%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.58%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)
|1
|2
|style='background: #ffffe6; |12
|0.04%
|0.08%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.54%
|-
|[[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone (NH)
|0
|0
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|0.00%
|0.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00%
|-
|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|Other race]] alone (NH)
|1
|0
|style='background: #ffffe6; |9
|0.04%
|0.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.40%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed race or Multiracial]] (NH)
|14
|11
|style='background: #ffffe6; |63
|0.54%
|0.44%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2.82%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|13
|34
|style='background: #ffffe6; |31
|0.50%
|1.35%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1.39%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''2,598'''
|'''2,513'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''2,235'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''100.00%'''
|}

As of the [[2020 United States census]], there were 2,235 people, 842 households, and 577 families residing in the county.

==Education==
[[Quitman County School District (Georgia)|Quitman County School District]] operates area public schools, including [[Quitman County High School]].

County students attended Stewart-Quitman High School (now [[Stewart County High School (Georgia)|Stewart County High School]]) from 1978, until Quitman County High opened,<ref name="Splitting">{{cite web|url=https://www.wtvm.com/story/8843804/stewart-quitman-county-high-school-is-splitting-up/|title=Stewart - Quitman County High School is Splitting Up|publisher=[[WTVM]]|date=August 14, 2008|accessdate=May 21, 2021}}</ref> in 2009.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}

==Politics==
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From the 1940s to 1960s Joe Hurst dominated politics in Quitman County, delivering votes for statewide officials, state judges, and prosecuting attorneys, under the [[County unit system]] which gave Quitman two units, a third as many as the biggest counties in the state. He hand-delivered state welfare checks and prevented secret ballots. In 1962 he stuffed the ballot box for future President [[Jimmy Carter]]'s opponent in a state senate primary. Carter won a series of court cases to remove his Democratic primary opponent's name from the general election ballot. There was no Republican candidate. Both candidates used radio ads to ask voters to vote by write-in, and Carter won the general election. Hurst was later convicted of fraud in an earlier primary, for which he had a fine and three years probation. He was also convicted of selling moonshine, for which he went to prison.<ref name="carter">{{Cite book |last=Carter |first=Jimmy |title=Turning point: a candidate, a state, and a nation come of age |date=1992 |publisher=Times Books |isbn=978-0-8129-2079-6 |edition=1 |location=New York |pages=74–204}}</ref>
<ref name="bourne">{{Cite book |last=Bourne |first=Peter G. |title=Jimmy Carter: a comprehensive biography from Plains to postpresidency |date=1997 |publisher=A Lisa Drew book Scribner |isbn=978-0-684-19543-8 |location=New York |pages=113–132}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|State of Georgia}}
* [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Quitman County, Georgia]]
*[[List of counties in Georgia]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{citation |title=A Gazetteer of Georgia |author=[[Adiel Sherwood]] |location=Georgia |edition=4th |year=1860 |chapter= Quitman County |chapter-url= https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t3mw34f0s&seq=121 |via=[[HathiTrust]] }}
* {{cite book |editor1= [[Allen D. Candler]] |editor2= [[Clement A. Evans]] |title= Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons Arranged in Cyclopedic Form |publisher=State Historical Association |location=Atlanta |year= 1906
|chapter= Quitman County |chapter-url= https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027784340&seq=134&view=2up |volume=3 |page=144 |via=HathiTrust }}

==External links==
* [http://www.georgetown-quitman.org/ Georgetown-Quitman County Consolidated Government]
* [http://www.georgetown-quitman.org/government/sheriff-office Quitman County Sheriff]
* {{citation |encyclopedia=[[New Georgia Encyclopedia]] |publisher=Georgia Humanities Council |title= Quitman County |url= https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/quitman-county/ }}
* [[Digital Public Library of America]]. Assorted items related to [https://dp.la/search?q=%22Quitman+County%22+Georgia Quitman County]

{{Geographic Location
|Centre    = Quitman County, Georgia
|North     = [[Stewart County, Georgia|Stewart County]]
|Northeast =
|East      = [[Randolph County, Georgia|Randolph County]]
|Southeast =
|South     = [[Clay County, Georgia|Clay County]]
|Southwest =
|West      = [[Barbour County, Alabama]]
|Northwest =
}}
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