McDuffie County, Georgia

McDuffie County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,632.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The county seat is Thomson.<ref name="GR6">Template:Cite web</ref> The county was created on October 18, 1870<ref>Georgia.gov's McDuffie County Overview</ref> and named after the South Carolina governor and senator George McDuffie.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

McDuffie County is part of the Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metropolitan statistical area.

History

Most communities located in the county were founded before the county was created. Some have faded into obscurity. The Historic Wrightsborough Foundation preserves the memory of the early 12,000 acre settlement of Wrightborough, which was occupied 1768 to 1920.<ref>Georgia Encyclopedia: Wrightsborough, accessed October 2017.</ref>

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of Template:Convert, of which Template:Convert is land and Template:Convert (3.4%) is water.<ref name="GR1">Template:Cite web</ref>

Most of the southern half of McDuffie County, south of Thomson, is located in the Brier Creek sub-basin of the Savannah River basin, except for a slice of the eastern portion of the county, north of Dearing and along a north–south line running through Boneville, which is located in the Middle Savannah River sub-basin of the Savannah River basin. The northern half of McDuffie County, north of Thomson, is located in the Little River sub-basin of the same Savannah River basin.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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Adjacent counties

• Lincoln County (northeast)
• Columbia County (east)
• Richmond County (southeast)
• Jefferson County (south)
• Warren County (west)
• Wilkes County (northwest)

Communities

City

• Thomson (county seat)

Town

• Dearing

Unincorporated communities

• Autney
• Boneville
• Cobbham
• Cobbham Crossroads

Demographics

McDuffie County racial composition as of 2020<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Race	Num.	Perc.
White (non-Hispanic)	11,417	52.78%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic)	8,644	39.96%
Native American	45	0.21%
Asian	76	0.35%
Pacific Islander	13	0.06%
Other/Mixed	647	2.99%
Hispanic or Latino	790	3.65%

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 21,632 people, 8,153 households, and 5,770 families residing in the county.

Politics

Typical of many counties in Georgia and the Solid South, McDuffie County mainly backed candidates of the Democratic Party in presidential elections by wide margins prior to 1964. There were several exceptions to this, firstly between 1892 and 1908 when it supported Republican William McKinley and the Populist candidacies of James B. Weaver and favorite son Thomas E. Watson.<ref>Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 169 Template:ISBN</ref> Template:PresHead Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresRow Template:PresFoot

See also

• Central Savannah River Area
• National Register of Historic Places listings in McDuffie County, Georgia
• List of counties in Georgia

External links

• Official website