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Tift County, Georgia

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

4historic places

—earliest paper

1905formed

41,344pop. 2020

13cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1980. Most listings are in or near Tifton.

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 Tift titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Tift County Courthouse	Tifton	Building	1980
Tifton Commercial Historic District	Tifton	District	1986
Tifton Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Tifton	District	1994
Tifton Residential Historic District	Tifton	District	2008

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Tift was formed in 1905 (1905-08-17) from Berrien, Irwin, Worth.

TIFT created from BERRIEN, IRWIN, and WORTH.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Tift County population from 1910 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1910	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
11,487	14,493	18,599	22,645	23,487	32,862	38,407	41,344

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

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

Cemeteries — 13 of 13 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Eldorado Baptist Church Cemetery	31.35748	-83.48673
Fletcher Cemetery	31.55712	-83.51432
Greenwood Cemetery	31.43907	-83.51072
Harding Cemetery	31.50497	-83.45014
Hickory Springs Cemetery	31.52705	-83.6089
Lawrence Cemetery	31.4299	-83.4271
Mount Vernon Cemetery	31.35232	-83.50512
Oak Ridge Cemetery	31.44823	-83.526
Rutland Cemetery	31.3447	-83.49752
Salem Cemetery	31.39185	-83.64017
Smith Cemetery	31.51111	-83.58116
Tift Memorial Gardens and Mausoleum	31.43422	-83.44953
Ty Ty Baptist Church Cemetery	31.47601	-83.65044

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Hoganville	31.55741	-83.48933
Iniss	31.37824	-83.5435

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

Historical markers

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