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Pierce County
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county in Georgia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Georgia
- Founded
- December 18, 1857 ; 169 years ago ( 1857 )
- Named after
- Franklin Pierce
- Seat
- Blackshear
- Largest city
- Blackshear
- Total
- 343 sq mi (890 km )
- Land
- 316 sq mi (820 km )
- Water
- 27 sq mi (70 km ) 7.8%
- Estimate 2025
- 20,764
- Density
- 62.4/sq mi (24.1/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- piercecountyga .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Franklin Pierce
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Georgia
- Capital
- Blackshear
- Population
- 19716
- Area
- 891
- Shares border with
- Ware County
- Official website
- piercecountyga.gov
- Image
- Pierce County Courthouse, Blackshear, GA, US.jpg
- Households
- 7178
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- Commons category
- Pierce County, Georgia
- topic's main category
- Category:Pierce County, Georgia
- inception
- 1857-12-08
- different from
- Pierce County
- water as percent of area
- 7.8
- native label
- Pierce County
- per capita income
- 23832
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Pierce County, Georgia
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Encyclopedic overview
Pierce County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,716. The county seat is Blackshear. Pierce County is part of the Waycross, Georgia Micropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pierce County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.