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Stephens County
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county in Georgia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Georgia
- Founded
- August 18, 1905 ; 121 years ago ( 1905 )
- Named after
- Alexander Stephens
- Seat
- Toccoa
- Largest city
- Toccoa
- Total
- 184 sq mi (480 km )
- Land
- 179 sq mi (460 km )
- Water
- 5.1 sq mi (13 km ) 2.8%
- Estimate 2025
- 27,854
- Density
- 150/sq mi (58/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 9th
- Website
- stephenscountyga .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Georgia
- Contains
- Toccoa
- Capital
- Toccoa
- Population
- 26784
- Area
- 477
- Shares border with
- Banks County
- Official website
- stephenscountyga.gov
- Image
- Stephens County, Georgia courthouse.JPG
- Households
- 9977
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- different from
- Stephenson County
- water as percent of area
- 2.8
- native label
- Stephens County
- Commons category
- Stephens County, Georgia
- topic's main category
- Category:Stephens County, Georgia
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Stephens County, Georgia
- inception
- 1905-08-18
- per capita income
- 22975
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Stephens County is a county in the Northeast region of the U.S. state of Georgia, in the Piedmont and near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It is bounded by the Tugaloo River and Lake Hartwell on the east. As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,784. The county seat is Toccoa.
Stephens County comprises the Toccoa, Georgia Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stephens County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.