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- Statehood: 1788; some counties were established before Georgia became a state
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County | Year Est. | Details |
Appling | 1818 | from land ceded by the Creek Indians in the Treaty of Fort Jackson in 1814 and the Treaty of the Creek Agency in 1818 |
Atkinson | 1917 | from Clinch and Coffee counties |
Bacon | 1914 | from Appling, Pierce and Ware counties |
Baker | 1825 | from Early County |
Baldwin | 1803 | from the Creek cessions of 1802 and 1805 |
Banks | 1859 | from Franklin and Habersham counties |
Barrow | 1914 | from Gwinnett, Jackson and Walton counties |
Bartow | 1832 | from a portion of Cherokee County in 1832; originally named Cass County after General Lewis Cass |
Ben Hill | 1906 | from Irwin and Wilcox counties |
Berrien | 1856 | from Coffee, Irwin, and Lowndes counties |
Bibb | 1822 | from portions of Houston, Jones, Monroe, and Twiggs counties |
Bleckley | 1912 | from Pulaski County |
Brantley | 1920 | from Charlton, Pierce, and Wayne counties |
Brooks | 1858 | from Lowndes and Thomas counties |
Bryan | 1793 | from Chatham County |
Bulloch | 1796 | from Bryan and Screven counties |
Burke | 1777 | from St. George Parish, renamed Burke County |
Butts | 1825 | from Henry and Monroe counties |
Calhoun | 1854 | from Early and Baker counties |
Camden | 1777 | from St. Mary and St. Thomas Parishes |
Candler | 1914 | from Bulloch, Emanuel and Tattnall counties |
Carroll | 1826 | from lands ceded by the Creek Indians in 1825 in the Treaty of Indian Springs |
Catoosa | 1853 | from Walker and Whitfield counties |
Charlton | 1854 | from Camden County |
Chatham | 1777 | from Christ Church and St. Philip Parishes |
Chattahoochee | 1854 | from Muscogee and Marion counties |
Chattooga | 1838 | from Walker and Floyd counties |
Cherokee | 1831 | from the Cherokee Cession of 1831 |
Clarke | 1801 | from Jackson County |
Clay | 1854 | from Randolph and Early counties |
Clayton | 1858 | from Fayette and Henry counties |
Clinch | 1850 | from Lowndes and Ware counties |
Cobb | 1832 | from Cherokee County |
Coffee | 1854 | from Clinch, Irwin, Telfair and Ware counties |
Colquitt | 1856 | from Thomas and Lowndes counties |
Columbia | 1790 | from Richmond County |
Cook | 1918 | from Berrien County |
Coweta | 1826 | from Creek lands ceded in 1825 in the treaty of Indian Springs and Creek Cessions of 1826 |
Crawford | 1822 | from Houston County |
Crisp | 1905 | from Dooly County |
Dade | 1837 | from Walker County |
Dawson | 1857 | from Gilmer and Lumpkin counties |
Decatur | 1823 | from Early County |
DeKalb | 1822 | from Henry, Gwinnett, and Fayette counties |
Dodge | 1870 | from Montgomery, Pulaski and Telfair counties |
Dooly | 1821 | from Creek Cession of 1821 |
Dougherty | 1853 | from Baker County |
Douglas | 1870 | from Campbell and Carroll counties |
Early | 1818 | from Creek Cession of 1814 |
Echols | 1858 | from Clinch and Lowndes counties |
Effingham | 1777 | from St Mathew and St Philip parishes |
Elbert | 1790 | from Wilkes County |
Emanuel | 1812 | from Bulloch and Montgomery counties |
Evans | 1914 | from Bulloch and Tattnall County |
Fannin | 1854 | from Gilmer and Union counties |
Fayette | 1821 | from Creek Cession of 1821 |
Floyd | 1832 | from Cherokee County |
Forsyth | 1832 | from Cherokee County |
Franklin | 1784 | from the Cherokee and Creek Cessions of 1783 |
Fulton | 1853 | from DeKalb County plus the former Campbell and Milton counties and a portion of Cobb County |
Gilmer | 1832 | from Cherokee County |
Glascock | 1857 | from Warren County |
Glynn | 1777 | from St. David and St Patrick Parishes |
Gordon | 1850 | from Cass (now Bartow) and Floyd counties |
Grady | 1905 | from Decatur and Thomas counties |
Greene | 1786 | from Washington County |
Gwinnett | 1818 | from the Cherokee Cession of 1817 and Creek Cession of 1818 |
Habersham | 1818 | from the Cherokee Cessions of 1817 and 1819 |
Hall | 1818 | from the Cherokee Cessions of 1817 and 1819 |
Hancock | 1793 | from Greene and Washington counties |
Haralson | 1856 | from Carroll and Polk counties |
Harris | 1827 | from Muscogee and Troup counties |
Hart | 1853 | from Elbert and Franklin counties |
Heard | 1830 | from Carroll, Coweta and Troup counties |
Henry | 1821 | from the Creek Cession of 1821 |
Houston | 1821 | from the Creek Cession of 1821 |
Irwin | 1818 | from the Creek Cessions of 1814 and 1818 |
Jackson | 1796 | from Franklin County |
Jasper | 1807 | from Baldwin (formerly Randolph County 1807-1812) |
Jeff Davis | 1905 | from Appling and Coffee counties |
Jefferson | 1796 | from Burke and Warren counties |
Jenkins | 1905 | from Bulloch, Burke, Emanuel, and Screven counties |
Johnson | 1858 | from Emanuel, Laurens and Washington counties |
Jones | 1807 | from Baldwin County |
Lamar | 1920 | from Monroe and Pike counties |
Lanier | 1920 | from Berrien, Clinch and Lowndes countries |
Laurens | 1807 | from Wilkinson County |
Lee | 1826 | from the Creek Cessions of 1826 |
Liberty | 1777 | from St. Andrew, St James, and St. John Parishes |
Lincoln | 1796 | from Wilkes County |
Long | 1920 | from Liberty County |
Lowndes | 1825 | from Irwin County |
Lumpkin | 1832 | from Cherokee, Habersham, and Hall counties |
Macon | 1837 | from Houston and Marion counties |
Madison | 1811 | from Clarke, Elbert, Franklin, Jackson and Oglethorpe counties |
Marion | 1827 | from Lee and Muscogee counties |
McDuffie | 1870 | from Columbia and Warren |
McIntosh | 1793 | from Liberty County |
Meriwether | 1827 | from Formed from Troup County |
Miller | 1856 | from Baker and Early counties |
Mitchell | 1857 | from Baker County |
Monroe | 1821 | from Creek Cession of 1821 |
Montgomery | 1793 | from Washington County |
Morgan | 1807 | from Baldwin County |
Murray | 1832 | from Cherokee County |
Muscogee | 1826 | from Creek Cession of 1826 |
Newton | 1821 | from Henry, Jasper, and Walton counties |
Oconee | 1875 | from Clarke County |
Oglethorpe | 1793 | from Wilkes County |
Paulding | 1832 | from Cherokee County |
Peach | 1924 | from Houston and Macon counties |
Pickens | 1853 | from Cherokee and Gilmer counties |
Pierce | 1857 | from Appling and Ware counties |
Pike | 1822 | from Monroe County |
Polk | 1851 | from Floyd and Paulding counties |
Pulaski | 1808 | from Laurens County |
Putnam | 1807 | from Baldwin County |
Quitman | 1858 | from Randolph and Stewart counties |
Rabun | 1819 | from Cherokee Cession of 1819 |
Randolph | 1828 | from Lee County |
Richmond | 1777 | from St. Paul Parish |
Rockdale | 1870 | from Henry and Newton counties |
Schley | 1857 | from Marion and Sumter counties |
Screven | 1793 | from Burke and Effingham counties |
Seminole | 1920 | from Decatur and Early counties |
Spalding | 1851 | from Fayette, Henry, and Pike counties |
Stephens | 1905 | from Franklin and Habersham counties |
Stewart | 1830 | from Randolph County |
Sumter | 1831 | from Lee County |
Talbot | 1827 | from Muscogee County |
Taliaferro | 1825 | from Greene, Hancock, Oglethorpe, Warren, and Wilkes counties |
Tattnall | 1801 | from Montgomery County |
Taylor | 1852 | from Macon, Marion and Talbot counties |
Telfair | 1807 | from Wilkinson County |
Terrell | 1856 | from Lee and Randolph counties |
Thomas | 1825 | from Decatur and Irwin counties |
Tift | 1905 | from Berrien, Irwin and Worth counties |
Toombs | 1905 | from Emanuel, Tattnall, and Montgomery counties |
Towns | 1856 | from Rabun and Union counties |
Treutlen | 1918 | from Emanuel and Montgomery counties |
Troup | 1826 | from Creek Cession of 1826 |
Turner | 1905 | from Dooly, Irwin, Wilcox and Worth counties |
Twiggs | 1809 | from Wilkinson County |
Union | 1832 | from Cherokee County |
Upson | 1824 | from Crawford and Pike counties |
Walker | 1833 | from Murray County |
Walton | 1818 | from Creek Cession of 1818 |
Ware | 1824 | from Appling County |
Warren | 1793 | from Columbia, Hancock, Richmond, and Wilkes counties |
Washington | 1784 | from Creek Cession of 1783 |
Wayne | 1803 | from Creek Cession of 1802 |
Webster | 1853 | from Stewart County (Formally Kinchafoonee) |
Wheeler | 1912 | from Montgomery County |
White | 1857 | from Habersham County |
Whitfield | 1851 | from Murray County |
Wilcox | 1857 | from Dooly, Irwin, and Pulaski counties |
Wilkes | 1777 | from the Cherokee and Creek Cessions of 1773 |
Wilkinson | 1803 | from the Creek Cessions of 1802 and 1805 |
Worth | 1853 | from Dooly and Irwin counties |