Baker County, Georgia
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox U.S. county Baker County is a county in Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,876, making it the fifth-least populous county in Georgia.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The county seat and only city is Newton.<ref name="GR6">Template:Cite web</ref> The county was created December 12, 1825, from the eastern portion of Early County by an act of the Georgia General Assembly and is named for Colonel John Baker, a hero of the American Revolutionary War.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Baker County is included in the Albany, GA metropolitan statistical area.
The Baker County Courthouse (Georgia) is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Three other properties in Newton are also listed on the register: Notchaway Baptist Church and Cemetery, Pine Bloom Plantation, and Tarver Plantation.
Geography
[edit]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 (2.1%) is water.<ref name="GR1">Template:Cite web</ref>
The eastern half of Baker County is located in the Lower Flint River sub-basin of the ACF River Basin (Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin). The western half of the county is located in the Ichawaynochaway Creek sub-basin of the same ACF River Basin.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Major highways
[edit]- File:Georgia 37.svg State Route 37
- File:Georgia 91.svg State Route 91
- File:Georgia 200.svg State Route 200
- File:Georgia 216.svg State Route 216
- File:Georgia 253.svg State Route 253
Adjacent counties
[edit]- Dougherty County, Georgia - northeast
- Mitchell County, Georgia - east
- Decatur County, Georgia - southwest
- Early County, Georgia - west
- Miller County, Georgia - west
- Calhoun County, Georgia - northwest
Communities
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[edit]Unincorporated communities
[edit]Ghost towns
[edit]- Cheevertown
- Dewsville<ref name="Baker County History">Template:Cite book</ref>
Demographics
[edit]| Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) | Pop 2000<ref name=2000CensusP004>Template:Cite web</ref> | Pop 2010<ref name="2010CensusP2">Template:Cite web</ref> | Template:Partial<ref name="2020CensusP2">Template:Cite web</ref> | % 2000 | % 2010 | Template:Partial |
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| White alone (NH) | 1,889 | 1,642 | 1,514 | 46.37% | 47.58% | 52.64% |
| Black or African American alone (NH) | 2,038 | 1,600 | 1,128 | 50.02% | 46.36% | 39.22% |
| Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH) | 9 | 9 | 1 | 0.22% | 0.26% | 0.03% |
| Asian alone (NH) | 0 | 24 | 18 | 0.00% | 0.70% | 0.63% |
| Pacific Islander alone (NH) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0.02% | 0.06% | 0.00% |
| Other race alone (NH) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0.05% | 0.03% | 0.07% |
| Mixed race or Multiracial (NH) | 24 | 28 | 70 | 0.59% | 0.81% | 2.43% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 111 | 145 | 143 | 2.72% | 4.20% | 4.97% |
| Total | 4,074 | 3,451 | 2,876 | 100.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% |
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 2,876 people, 1,425 households, and 788 families residing in the county.
Education
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Baker County School System operates public schools.<ref>Baker County School System Retrieved February 23, 2011.</ref>
Politics
[edit]Like most Deep South counties, Baker County is historically Democratic. Starting in 1964, the county began to see a realignment, with Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon carrying it in 1964 and 1972, and American Independent candidate George Wallace winning the county in 1968 as a third-party candidate. In 1956, Adlai Stevenson received over 96 percent of the county's vote.<ref>David Leip's Presidential Atlas: 1956 statistics</ref> The county voted Democratic consistently from 1976 until 2012, but by closer margins than in 1956, and the county shifted more to the right throughout the early 2000s. In 2008 Barack Obama won with just 50.1 percent to John McCain's 49.1 percent,<ref>The New York Times Electoral Map (Zoom in on Georgia)</ref> while Donald Trump won the county by almost ten percent in 2016, despite declining on Mitt Romney’s performance statewide. Brian Kemp repeated this feat by double digits in the 2018 gubernatorial race, and in 2020, Trump won Baker County by nearly sixteen percentage points.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
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See also
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[edit]External links
[edit]- Baker County Sheriff's Office
- Baker County historical marker
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- Digital Public Library of America. Assorted items related to Baker County
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