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Catoosa County, Georgia

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
9historic places
—earliest paper
1853formed
67,872pop. 2020
32cemeteries
9CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 9 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966. Most listings are in or near Ringgold, Fort Oglethorpe, Graysville.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Georgia is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Catoosa titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

4 of 9 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

9 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Blackford-Gray HouseGraysvilleBuilding2007
Catoosa County CourthouseRinggoldBuilding2006
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military ParkFort OglethorpeDistrict1966
Fort Oglethorpe Historic DistrictFort OglethorpeDistrict1979
Ringgold Commercial Historic DistrictRinggoldDistrict1992
Ringgold DepotRinggoldBuilding1978
Ringgold Gap BattlefieldRinggoldDistrict2011
Stone ChurchRinggoldBuilding1979
Whitman-Anderson HouseRinggoldBuilding1977

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Catoosa was formed in 1853 (1853-12-05) from Walker, Whitfield.

CATOOSA created from WALKER and WHITFIELD.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Catoosa County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

68k36k4,4091860188019201940196020002020
1860188019001920194019501960198020002020
5,0824,7395,8236,67712,19915,14621,10136,99153,28267,872

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

SiteTypeDist.
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military ParkPark unit13.3 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

32 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 32 of 32 listed
NameLatLon
Anderson Memorial Gardens34.91057-85.12084
Blackwell Cemetery34.98451-85.16578
Boynton Cemetery34.92368-85.18952
Burning Bush Cemetery34.89779-85.2144
Cloud Springs Cemetery34.95692-85.26104
Dedmon Cemetery34.86757-85.11606
Dedmon Cemetery34.83479-85.12717
Dietz Cemetery34.94162-85.20319
Dixon Cemetery34.97639-85.19783
Dogwood Cemetery34.82507-85.07717
Ebenezer Cemetery34.89424-85.07244
Gordy Cemetery34.94951-85.11078
Gordy Memorial Gardens34.87818-85.05177
Hale Cemetery34.94229-85.16689
Hunt Cemetery34.89261-85.24133
Lakewood Memory Gardens and Mausoleum South34.98188-85.2521
Mount Vernon Cemetery34.97951-85.00744
Nathan Anderson Historic Cemetery34.91095-85.12258
New Boynton Cemetery34.94843-85.19266
New Boynton Cemetery34.94868-85.19245
New Liberty Cemetery34.97323-85.15888
Newnan Springs Cemetery34.9788-85.2442
Old Graysville Cemetery34.97508-85.14005
Old Post Oak Cemetery34.89174-85.20273
Old Ringgold Cemetery34.91535-85.11328
Patrick Cemetery34.92007-85.25273
Pine Grove Cemetery34.96358-85.18728
Salem Cemetery34.95563-85.04217
Smiths Chapel Cemetery34.92479-85.01411
Stone Cemetery34.90785-85.07689
Wood Station Cemetery34.77563-85.18439
Yates Cemetery34.83924-85.14911
Historical populated places — 1 of 1
NameLatLon
Opeleika34.97563-85.14162

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Civil War battlefields nearby

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Civil War study areas near this county.

BattlefieldStudy acresDist.Site ID
Ringgold Gap1,1633.1 kmGA005
Chickamauga26,08411.1 kmGA004
Dalton I3,58014.6 kmGA006
Rocky Face Ridge9,95316.9 kmGA007
Chattanooga43,72419.1 kmTN024
Davis'Cross-Roads32,64022.9 kmGA003
Chattanooga2,29723.5 kmTN018
Chattanooga1,44623.7 kmTN005
Wauhatchie10,84526.2 kmTN021

Source: NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Civil War Study Areas (public ArcGIS feature service).

Historical markers

HMdb link

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