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Echols County, Georgia

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

2historic places

—earliest paper

1858formed

3,697pop. 2020

2cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 2 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1988. Most listings are in or near Lake Park, Statenville.

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 Echols titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 2 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

2 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Corbett Farm	Lake Park	District	2000
Statenville Consolidated School	Statenville	Building	1988

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Echols was formed in 1858 (1858-12-13) from Clinch, Lowndes.

ECHOLS created from CLINCH and LOWNDES.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,491	2,553	3,209	3,313	2,964	2,494	1,876	2,297	3,754	3,697

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

2 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 2 of 2 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Carter Cemetery	30.71033	-83.11594
Carter Cemetery	30.75298	-83.06193

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

Historical markers

HMdb link

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