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Eastman
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city in Dodge County, Georgia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Georgia
- County
- Dodge
- Type
- Council-Manager
- City manager
- J. Spencer Barron
- Council chairman
- Graham Snyder
- Council vice chairman
- Sebrina Williams
- Total
- 6.53 sq mi (16.90 km )
- Land
- 6.47 sq mi (16.75 km )
- Water
- 0.062 sq mi (0.16 km )
- Elevation
- 390 ft (119 m)
- Density
- 875.0/sq mi (337.84/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 ( EDT )
- Fips code
- 13-25552
- Gnis feature id
- 0355610
- Website
- cityofeastman .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Eastman
- Population
- 5658
- Area
- 14.1582
- Elevation
- 119
- Official website
- www.eastman-georgia.com
- Image
- Eastman Municipal Building, City Hall, Council Chamber.JPG
- Households
- 1893
- Dialing code
- 478
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- water as percent of area
- 0.9282
- Commons category
- Eastman, Georgia
- per capita income
- 21001
- postal code
- 31023
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Eastman is a city in and the county seat of Dodge County, Georgia, United States. The population was 5,658 at the 2020 census, up from 4,962 at the 2010 census. The city was named after William Pitt Eastman, a native of Massachusetts who purchased a large tract of land along the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, and settled a city on the site.
In the 19th century, this was a center of the timber and sawmill industry. During the Great Depression in 1937, the first Stuckey's Pecan Shoppe, once well-known along roadways throughout the United States, was founded in Eastman.