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Wayne County, Georgia

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4historic places

—earliest paper

1803formed

30,144pop. 2020

20cemeteries

—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 Jesup, Odum.

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 Wayne titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Carter, Leonard, House	Jesup	Building	1989
Ritch-Carter-Martin House	Odum	Building	1998
Trowell, John W. C., House	Jesup	Building	1993
Wayne County Courthouse	Jesup	Building	1980

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Wayne was formed in 1803 (1803-05-11) from Camden, Glynn.

WAYNE created from CAMDEN, GLYNN and Non-County Area.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Wayne County population from 1810 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1810	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
676	1,010	1,258	2,268	5,980	9,449	14,381	13,122	14,248	17,921	20,750	26,565	30,144

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

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

Cemeteries — 20 of 20 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Aspinwall Cemetery	31.69492	-82.07123
Bennett Cemetery	31.52153	-82.01584
Chapman Cemetery	31.33661	-81.72094
Crum Cemetery	31.34384	-81.74196
Duck Pond Cemetery	31.41984	-81.98313
Joiner Cemetery	31.63947	-82.02082
Little Memorial Cemetery	31.35688	-81.76684
Moody Cemetery	31.43243	-82.03622
Mount Pleasant Cemetery	31.42523	-81.67265
O'Quinn Cemetery	31.80131	-82.04567
Old German Cemetery	31.47969	-81.88253
Old Ritch Cemetery	31.5602	-82.12345
Pinecrest Memorial Cemetery	31.66076	-81.91567
Popwell Cemetery	31.35734	-81.70511
Rogers Cemetery	31.43379	-81.9557
Screven Cemetery	31.50326	-82.01229
Smiths Cemetery	31.54791	-82.07692
Thompson Cemetery	31.8106	-82.07628
Thornton Cemetery	31.50648	-82.06706
Warren Cemetery	31.79018	-82.03916

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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