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Laurens County
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county in Georgia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Georgia
- Founded
- December 10, 1807 ; 218 years ago ( 1807-12-10 )
- Named after
- John Laurens
- Seat
- Dublin
- Largest city
- Dublin
- Total
- 818 sq mi (2,120 km )
- Land
- 807 sq mi (2,090 km )
- Water
- 11 sq mi (28 km ) 1.4%
- Estimate 2025
- 51,041
- Density
- 60/sq mi (23/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 12th
- Website
- www .laurenscoga .org
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Laurens County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 49,570, up from 48,434 in 2010. The county seat is Dublin. The county was founded on December 10, 1807, and named after Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens, an American soldier and statesman from South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War.
Laurens County is part of the Dublin micropolitan statistical area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Laurens County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.