Editing Riceboro, Georgia

{{Short description|City in the United States}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}
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'''Riceboro''' is a city in [[Liberty County, Georgia|Liberty County]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], United States. The population was 809 at the 2010 census. It is a part of the [[Hinesville, Georgia|Hinesville]]-[[Fort Stewart, Georgia|Fort Stewart]] [[Hinesville-Fort Stewart metropolitan area|metropolitan statistical area]].

==History==
The community was named for the early rice industry in the area.<ref>{{cite book|author=Federal Writers' Project|title=The Ocean Highway: New Brunswick, New Jersey to Jacksonville, Florida|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015064565875;view=1up;seq=217|year=1938|publisher=Works Progress Administration|page=151}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/r.pdf| title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=187 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}}</ref> Riceboro served as the second seat of Liberty County from 1789 until 1837.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA233 | title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States | publisher=Routledge | date=May 13, 2013 | accessdate=30 November 2013 | author=Hellmann, Paul T. | pages=233| isbn=978-1135948597 }}</ref>

The [[Georgia General Assembly]] first incorporated the place as the "Village of Riceborough" in 1819.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lamar|first=Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus|title=A Compilation of the Laws of the State of Georgia|url=https://archive.org/details/compilationoflaw00lama|year=1821|publisher=T. S. Hannon|page=[https://archive.org/details/compilationoflaw00lama/page/1051 1051]}}</ref>

==Geography==

Riceboro is located at {{coord|31|44|7|N|81|26|25|W|type:city}} (31.735411, -81.440240).<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=2011-04-23|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref>

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|11.4|sqmi|km2}}, of which {{convert|11.1|sqmi|km2}} is land and {{convert|0.3|sqmi|km2}} (2.72%) is water.

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1930= 233
|1940= 364
|1950= 267
|1960= 259
|1970= 252
|1980= 216
|1990= 745
|2000= 736
|2010= 809
|2020= 615
|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"
|+Riceboro racial composition as of 2020<ref>{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US1364960&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=2021-12-14|website=data.census.gov}}</ref>
!Race
!Num.
!Perc.
|-
|[[White (U.S. Census)|White]] (non-Hispanic)
|86
|13.98%
|-
|[[African American (U.S. Census)|Black or African American]] (non-Hispanic)
|509
|82.76%
|-
|[[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]]
|2
|0.33%
|-
|[[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]]
|3
|0.49%
|-
|[[Race (United States Census)|Other/Mixed]]
|9
|1.46%
|-
|[[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]]
|6
|0.98%
|}
As of the [[2020 United States census]], there were 615 people, 310 households, and 193 families residing in the city.

==Notable people==
*[[DeLisha Milton-Jones]], WNBA player and Olympic gold medalist, head coach at [[Pepperdine Waves women's basketball|Old Dominion]]
*[[Richard LeCounte|Richard LeCounte III]], (b 1998) NFL safety for the [https://www.clevelandbrowns.com/team/players-roster/richard-lecounte-iii/ Cleveland Browns] and at the [https://georgiadogs.com/sports/football/roster/richard-lecounte/4733 University of Georgia]

==See also==
[[List of county seats in Georgia (U.S. state)]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.georgiascoast.com/ Georgia's Coast in photographs and more]
{{Liberty County, Georgia}}

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[[Category:Cities in Georgia (U.S. state)]]
[[Category:Cities in Liberty County, Georgia]]
[[Category:Hinesville metropolitan area]]
[[Category:Former county seats in Georgia (U.S. state)]]