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Burke County
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county in Georgia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Georgia
- Founded
- 1777 ; 249 years ago ( 1777 )
- Named after
- Edmund Burke
- Seat
- Waynesboro
- Largest city
- Waynesboro
- Total
- 835 sq mi (2,160 km )
- Land
- 827 sq mi (2,140 km )
- Water
- 8.0 sq mi (21 km ) 1.0%
- Estimate 2025
- 24,408
- Density
- 27/sq mi (10/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 12th
- Website
- www .burkecounty-ga .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Edmund Burke
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Georgia
- Contains
- Waynesboro
- Capital
- Waynesboro
- Population
- 24596
- Area
- 2163
- Shares border with
- Jefferson County
- Official website
- www.burkecounty-ga.gov
- Image
- Burke County Courthouse - Waynesboro.jpg
- Households
- 7953
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- Category:Burke County, Georgia
- Commons category
- Burke County, Georgia
- inception
- 1777-02-05
- different from
- Burke County
- water as percent of area
- 1
- native label
- Burke County
- social media followers
- 1658
- per capita income
- 24050
- topic has template
- Template:Burke County, Georgia
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Burke County, Georgia
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Encyclopedic overview
Burke County is a county located along the eastern border of the U.S. state of Georgia in the Piedmont. As of the 2020 census, the population was 24,596. The county seat is Waynesboro. Burke County is part of the Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metropolitan statistical area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Burke County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.