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790 records, counting

Adams | Appling | Atkinson | Bacon | Baker | Baldwin | Banks | Barrow | Bartow | Ben Hill | Berrien | Bibb | Blickley | Bourbon |

| Brantley | Brooks | Bryan | Bulloch | Burke | Butts | Calhoun | Camden | Campbell | Candler | Carroll | Cass | Catoosa | Charlton |

| Chatham | Chattahoochee | Chattooga | Cherokee | Christ Church | Clarke | Clay | Clayton | Clinch | Cobb | Coffee | Colquitt |

| Columbia | Cook | Coweta | Crawford | Crisp | Dade | Dawson | Decatur | De Kalb | Dodge | Dooly | Dougherty | Douglas | Early |

| Echols | Effingham | Elbert | Emanuel | Evans | Fannin | Fayette | Floyd | Forsyth | Franklin | Frederica | Fulton | Gilmer | Glascock |

| Glynn | Gordon | Grady | Greene | Gwinnett | Habersham | Hall | Hancock | Haralson | Harris | Hart | Heard | Henry |

| Houston (old) | Houston | Irwin | Jackson | Jasper | Jeff Davis | Jefferson | Jenkins | Johnson | Jones | Kinchafoonee | Lamar |

| Lanier | Laurens | Lee | Liberty | Lincoln | Long | Lowndes | Lumpkin | Mc Duffie | Mc Intosh | Macon | Madison | Marion |

| Meriwether | Miller | Milton | Mitchel | Monroe | Montgomery | Morgan | Murray | Muscogee | Newton | Oconee | Ogelthorpe |

| Paulding | Peach | Pickens | Pierce | Pike | Polk | Pulaski | Putnam | Quitman | Rabun | Randolph | Richmond | Rockdale | Savannah |

| St. Andrew | St. David | St. George | St. James | St. John | St. Mary | St. Mathew | St. Patrick | St. Paul | St. Philip | St. Thomas |

| Schley | Screven | Seminole | Spalding | Stephens | Stewart | Sumter | Talbot | Taliaferro | Tattnall | Taylor | Telfair | Thomas | Tift |

| Toombs | Towns | Treutlen | Troup | Turner | Twiggs | Union | Upson | Walker | Walton | Ware | Warren | Washington | Wayne |

| Webster | Wheeler | White | Whitfield | Wilcox | Wilkes | Wilkinson | Worth |

Changed county names:
Cass - Bartow
Kinchafoonee - Webster

Disappeared Counties
Bourbon formed 1785 from Indian lands, went extinct and never functioned as a county.
Campbell formed 20 Dec 1820 from Carroll & Coweta. Merged with Fulton County in 1932.
Houston (old) formed 23 Feb 1784 from Indian lands. Extinct withot functioning.
Milton formed 18 Dec 1857 from Cobb, Cherokee & Forsyth. Merged with Fulton County in 1932
One of two sets of Parishes formed from Savannah and Frederica counties. Savannah and Frederica counties were first two formed from the Provincial Territory of Georgia and were basis for forming the original parish system in Georgia.
St. Andrew - Liberty
St. David - Glynn
St. George - Burke
St. James - Liberty
St. John - ?
St. Mary - Camden
St. Mathew - Effingham
St. Patrick - Glynn
St. Philip - Chatham
St. Thomas - ?

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  1. Appling - 15 Dec 1818 from Creek Indian Cession. Parts taken for Charleton 1854, Coffee 1854, Pierce 1857, Echols, 1858, Jeff Davis 1905, Bacon 1914
  2. Atkinson - Aug 1917 from Coffee & Clinch
  3. Bacon - 27 Jul 1914 from Appling & Pierce
  4. Baker - 12 Dec 1825 from Early. Parts taken for Dougherty 1853, Miller 1856, Mitchell 1857
    A-Z | completed | 168 records
  5. Baldwin - 11 May 1803 from Creek Indian lands. Parts taken for Jones 1807, Morgan, 1807, Putnam 1807, Jasper 1812, Newton 1821
  6. Banks - 11 Dec 1858 from Franklin & Habersham
  7. Barrow - 7 Jul 1914 from Jackson & Walton
  8. Bartow - 3 Dec 1832 from Cherokee. Renamed Bartow 6 Dec 1861. Parts taken for Gordon 1850
  9. Ben Hill - 31 Jul 1906 from Irwin & Wilcox
  10. Berrien - 25 Feb 1856 from Lowndes. Parts takenf or Tift 1905, Cook 1918, Lanier 1919
  11. Bibb - 9 Dec 1822 from Jones & Monroe
  12. Bleckley - 2 Oct 1912 from Pulaski
  13. Brantley - 14 Aug 1920 from Chalton & Pierce
  14. Brooks - 11 Dec 1858 from Lowndes & Thomas
  15. Bryan - 19 Dec 1793 from Effingham & Liberty
  16. Bulloch - 8 Feb 1796 from Creek Indian lands. Parts taken for Emanuel 1812, Jenkins 1905, Candler 1914, Evans 1914
  17. Burke - 5 Feb 1777 renamed from St. George Parish. Parts taken for Screven 1793, Jefferson 1796, Jenkins 1905
  18. Butts - 24 Dec 1825 from Henry & Monroe
  19. Calhoun - 20 Feb 1854 from Early
  20. Camden - 5 Feb 1777 renamed from St. Mary Parish. Part taken for Wayne 1803
  21. Candler - 17 Jul 1914 from Bullock & Emanuel
  22. Carroll - 11 Dec 1826 from Indian lands. Parts taken for Campbell 1828, Heard 1830, Haralson 1856, Douglas 1870
  23. Catoosa - 5 Dec 1853 from Walker & Cherokee
  24. Charlton - 18 Feb 1854 from Wayne & Appling. Part taken for Brantley 1920
  25. Chatham - 5 Feb 1777 renamed from St. Phillip Parish
  26. Chattahoochee - 13 Feb 1854 from Muscogee & Randolph
  27. Chattooga - 28 Dec 1838 from Floyd, Walker & Cherokee
  28. Cherokee - 26 Dec 1831 from Cherokee Indian lands. Parts taken for Bartow 1832, Cobb 1832, Floyd 1832, Paulding 1832, Chattooga 1838, Catoosa 1853, Pickens 1853, Milton 1857
  29. Clarke - 5 Dec 1801 from Jackson. Parts taken for Madison 1811, Oconee 1875
  30. Clay - 16 Feb 1854 from Early & Randolph
  31. Clayton - 30 Nov 1858 from Fayette & Henry
  32. Clinch - 14 Feb 1850 from Wayne. Part taken for Atkinson 1917
  33. Cobb - 3 Dec 1832 from Cherokee. Part taken for Milton 1857
  34. Coffee - 9 Feb 1854 from Appling, Irwin & Telfair. Parts taken for Jeff Davis 1905, Atkinson 1917
  35. Colquitt - 25 Feb 1856 from Irwin & Thomas
  36. Columbia - 10 Dec 1790 from Richmond. Parts taken for Warren 1793, McDuffie 1870
  37. Cook - 30 Jul 1918 from berrien
  38. Coweta - 11 Dec 1826 from Indian lands. Parts taken for Campbell 1828, Heard 1830
  39. Crawford - 9 Dec 1822 from Houston, Macon & Talbot. Parts taken for Upson 1824, Taylor 1853
  40. Crisp - 17 Aug 1905 from Dooly
  41. Dade - 25 Dec 1837 from Walker
  42. Dawson - 3 Dec 1857 from Forsyth, Gilmer & Lumpkin
  43. Decatur - 8 Dec 1823 from Early. Parts taken for Thomas 1825, Grady 1905, Seminole 1920
  44. De Kalb - 9 Dec 1822 from Fayette & Henry. Part taken for Fulton 1853
  45. Dodge - 26 Oct 1870 from Montgomery, Pulaski & Telfair
  46. Dooly - 15 May 1821 from Indian Lands. Parts taken for Worth 1852, Wilcox 1857, Macon 1857, Crisp 1905, Turner 1905
  47. Dougherty - 15 Dec 1853 from Baker
  48. Douglas - 17 Oct 1870 from Carroll
  49. Early - 15 Dec 1818 from Creek Land Cession. Parts taken for Baker 1825, Calhoun 1854, Clay 1854, Miller 1856, Decatur 1857, Seminole 1920
  50. Echols - 13 Dec 1858 from Appling & Irwin
  51. Effingham - 5 Feb 1777 renamed from St. Mathew Parish. Parts taken for Bryan 1793, Screvan 1893
  52. Elbert - 10 Dec 1790 from Wilkes. Parts taken for Madison 1811, Hart 1853
  53. Emanuel - 10 Dec 1812 from Montgomery & Bullock. Parts taken for Johnson 1858, Toombs 1905, Jenkins 1905, Candler 1914, Treutlen 1917
  54. Evans - 11 Aug 1914 from Bullock & Tattnall
  55. Fannin - 21 Jan 1854 from Gilmer & Union
  56. Fayette -15 May 1821 from Indian Land cession. Parts taken for De Kalb 1822, Clayton 1858
  57. Floyd - 3Dec 1832 from Cherokee. Parts taken for Chattooga 1838, Gordon 1850
  58. Forsyth - 3 Dec 1832 from Cherokee. Parts taken for Dawson 1857, Milton 1857
  59. Franklin - 23 Feb 1784 from Cherokee Land Cession. Parts taken for Hart 1784, Jackson 1796, Madison 1811, Banks 1858, Stephens 1905
  60. Fulton - 20 Dec 1853 from De Kalb
  61. Gilmer - 3 Dec 1832 from Cherokee Cession. Parts taken for Pickens 1853, Fannin 1854, Dawson 1857
  62. Glascock - 19 Dec 1857 from Warren
  63. Glynn - 5 Feb 1777 renamed from St. David & St. Patrick. Part taken for Wayne 1803
  64. Gordon - 13 Feb 1850 from Cass & FLoyd
  65. Grady - 17 Aug 1905 from Decatur & Thomas
  66. Greene - 3 Feb 1786 from Washington. Parts taken for Hancock 1793, Taliaferro 1825
  67. Gwinnett - 15 Dec 1818 from Cherokee Lands
  68. Habersham - 15 Dec 1818 from Cherokee Land Strip. Parts takenf or White 1857, Banks 1858, Stephens 1905
  69. Hall - 15 De c1818 from Cherokee Cession
  70. Hancock - 17 Dec 1793 from Greene & Washington. Part taken for Taliaferro 1825
  71. Haralson - 26 Jan 1856 from Carroll & Polk
  72. Harris - 14 Dec 1827 from Muscogee & Troup
  73. Hart - 7 Dec 1853 from Elbert, Franklin & Madison
  74. Heard - 22 Dec 1830 from Carroll, Coweta & Troup
    | A-Z | completed | 241 records
  75. Henry - 15 May 1821 from Indian lands. Parts taken for Newton 1821, De Kalb 1822, Butts 1825, Spaulding 1856, Clayton 1858, Rockdale 1870
  76. Houston - 15 May 1821 from Indian land Cession. Parts taken for Crawford 1822, Macon 1857, Peach 1924
  77. Irwin - 15 Dec 1818 from Cherokee land. Parts taken for Ware 1824, Thomas 1825, Lowndes 1835, Worth 1852, Coffee 1854, Colquitt 1856, Wilcox 1857, Echols 1858, Turner 1905, Ben Hill 1906
  78. Jackson - 11 Feb 1796 from Franklin. Parts taken for Clarke 1801, Madison 1811, Barrow 1914
  79. Jasper - 10 Dec 1812 from Baldwin. Part taken for Newton 1821
  80. Jeff Davis - 18 Aug 1905 from Appling & Coffee
  81. Jefferson - 20 Feb 1796 from Burke & Warren
  82. Jenkins - 17 Aug 1905 from Bullock, Burke & Emanuel
  83. Johnson - 11 De c1858 from Emanuel & Laurens
  84. Jones - 10 Dec 1807 from Baldwin. Part taken for Bibb 1822
  85. Lamar - 17 Aug 1920 from Monroe
  86. Lanier - 11 Aug 1919 from Berrien & Lowndes
  87. Laurens - 10 Dec 1807 from Washington, Wilkinson. Parts taken for Pulaski 1808, Johnson 1858
  88. Lee - 11 Dec 1827 from Indian land cession. Parts taken for Marion 1827, Randolph 1828, Sumter 1831, Terrell 1856, Macon 1857
  89. Liberty - 5 Feb 1777 renamed from St. Andrew & St. James Parishes. Parts taken for Bryan 1793, McIntosh 1793, Long 1920
  90. Lincoln - 20 Feb 1796 from Wilkes
  91. Long - 14 Aug 1920 from Liberty
  92. Lowndes - 23 Dec 1835 from Irwin. Parts taken for Berrien 1856, Brooks 1858, Lanier 1919
  93. Lumpkin - 3 Dec 1832 from Cherokee land. Parts taken for Dawson 1857, White 1857
  94. Macon - 14 Dec 1857 from Dooly, Houston, Lee, Muscogee. Parts taken for Crawford 1822, Taylor 1853, Schley 1857, Peach 1924
  95. Madison - 11 Dec 1811 from Clarke, Elbert, Franklin, Jackson & Oglethorpe. Part taken for Hart 1853
  96. Marion - 14 Dec 1827 from Lee, Muscogee. Parts taken for Taylor 1853, Schley 1857
  97. Mc Duffie - 18 Oct 1870 from Columbia & Warren
  98. Mc Intosh - 19 Dec 1793 from Liberty
  99. Meriwether - 14 Dec 1827 from Troup
  100. Miller - 26 Feb 1856 from Baker, Early
  101. Milton - 18 Dec 1857 from Cobb, Cherokee, Forsyth
  102. Mitchell - 21 Dec 1857 from Baker
  103. Monroe - 15 May 1821 from Indian lands. Parts taken for Bibb 1822, Pike 1822, Butts 1825, Taylor 1853, Lamar 1920
  104. Montgomery - 19 Dec 1793 from Washington, Wilkinson. Parts taken for Tattnall 1801, Emanuel 1812, Dodge 1870, Toombs 1905, Wheeler 1912, Treutlen 1917
  105. Morgan - 10 Dec 1807 from Baldwin
  106. Murray - 3 Dec 1832 from Cherokee. Parts taken for Walker 1833, Whitfield 1851
    | A-Z | completed | 115 records
  107. Muscogee - 11 Dec 1826 from Creek Indian lands. Parts for Harris 1827, Talbot 1827, Chattahoochee 1854, Macon 1857
  108. Newton - 24 Dec 1821 from Baldwin, Walton, Henry & Jasper
    | A-Z | new 16 Dec 2007 | 266 records, counting
  109. Oconee - 25 Feb 1875 from Clark
  110. Oglethorpe - 19 Dec 1783 from Wilkes. Part taken for Madison 1811
  111. Paulding - 3 Dec 1832 from Cherokee. Part taken for Polk 1851
  112. Peach - 1924 from Houston & Macon
  113. Pickens - 5 Dec 1853 from Cherokee & Gilmer
  114. Pierce - 18 Dec 1857 from Appling & Ware. Parts taken for Bleckley 1912, Bacon 1914, Brantley 1920
  115. Pike - 9 Dec 1822 from Monroe. Parts taken for Upson 1824, Spaulding 1851
  116. Polk - 20 Dec 1851 from Paulding. Part taken for Haralson 1856
  117. Pulaski - 13 Dec 1808 from Laurens. Part taken for Wilcox 1857, Pulaski 1870, Bleckley 1912
  118. Putnam - 10 Dec 1807 from Baldwin
  119. Quitman - 10 Dec 1858 from Randolph & Stewart
  120. Rabun - 21 Dec 1819 from Cherokee Land Cession. Part taken for Towns 1856
  121. Randolph - 20 Dec 1828 from Lee. Parts taken for Stewart 1830, Clay 1854, Terrell 1856, Kinchafoonee 1856, Webster 1856, Quitman 1858
  122. Richmond - 5 Feb 1777 renamed from St. Paul's Parish. Parts taken for Columbia 1790, Warren 1793
  123. Rockdale - 18 Oct 1870 from Henry
  124. Schley - 22 Dec 1857 from Macon, Marion & Sumter
  125. Screven - 14 Dec 1793 from Burke & Effingham
  126. Seminole - 8 Jul 1820 from Decatur & Early
  127. Spalding - 20 Dec 1851 from Henry & Pike
  128. Stephens - 18 Aug 1905 from Franklin & Habersham
  129. Stewart - 23 Dec 1830 from Randolph. Part taken for Quitman 1858
  130. Sumter - 26 Dec 1831 from Lee. Part taken for Schley 1857
  131. Talbot - 14 De 1827 from Muscogee, Troup. Part taken for Crawford 1822, Taliaferro 1825, Taylor 1853
  132. Taliaferro - 24 Dec 1825 from Greene, Hancock, Talbot, Warren, Wilkes
  133. Tattnall - 5 Dec 1801 from Montgomery. Parts taken for Toombs 1905, Evans 1914
  134. Taylor - 15 Jan 1853 from Crawford, Macon, Talbot, Monroe, Marion
  135. Telfair - 10 Dec 1807 from Wilkinson. Parts taken for Coffee 1854, Dodge 1870
  136. Terrell - 16 Feb 1856 from Lee, Randolph
  137. Thomas - 23 Dec 1825 from Decatur, Irwin. Parts taken for Colquitt 1856, Brooks 1858, Grady 1905
  138. Tift - 17 Aug 1905 from Berrien, Worth
  139. Toombs - 17 Aug 1905 from Emanuel, Tattnall, Montgomery
  140. Towns - 6 Mar 1856 from Rabun, Union
  141. Treutlen - 21 Mar 1917 from Emanuel, Montgomery
  142. Troup - 11 Dec 1826 from Indian land cession. Parts taken for Harris 1827, Meriwether 1827, Talbot 1827, Heard 1830
  143. Turner - 18 Aug 1905 from Dooly, Irwin, Wilcox, Worth
  144. Twiggs - 14 Dec 1809 from Wilkinson
  145. Union - 3 Dec 1832 from Cherokee. Parts taken for Fannin 1854, Towns 1856
  146. Upson - 15 Dec 1824 from Crawford, Pike
  147. Walker - 18 Dec 1833 from Murray. Parts taken for Chattooga 1838, Dade 1837, Cattoosa 1853
  148. Walton - 15 Dec 1818 from Cherokee Indian lands. Parts taken for Newton 1821, Barrow 1914
  149. Ware - 15 Dec 1824 from Irwin. Part taken for Pierce 1857
  150. Warren - 19 Dec 1793 from Wilkes, Richmond, Columbia. Parts taken for Jefferson 1796, Taliaferro 1825, Glascock 1857, McDuffie 1870
  151. Washington - 25 Feb 1784 from Indian land cession. Parts taken for Greene 1786, Hancock 1793, Montgomery 1793, Laurens 1807
  152. Wayne - 11 May 1803 from Creek Indian lands, Charlton, Glynn, Camden. Parts taken for Clinch 1850, Charlton 1854
  153. Webster - 21 Feb1856. Renamed from Kinchafoonee 21 Feb 1856.
  154. Wheeler - 14 Nov 1912 from Montgomery
  155. White - 22 Dec 1857 from Habersham, Lumpkin
  156. Whitfield - 30 Dec 1851 from Murray
  157. Wilcox - 22 Dec 18576 from Dooly, Irwin, Pulaski. Parts taken for Turner 1905, Ben Hill 1906
  158. Wilkes - 5 Feb 1777 from Indian lands. Parts taken for Oglethorpe 1783, Elbert 1790, Warren 1793, Lincoln 1796, Taliaferro 1825
  159. Wilkinson - 11 May 1803 from Creek Indian lands. Parts taken for Montgomery 1793, Telfair 1807, Laurens 1807, Twiggs 1809
  160. Worth - 20 Dec 1852 - Dooly, Irwin. Parts taken for Tift 1905, Turner 1905

Sources:

Cabinet Histories, Georgia History and Georgia, Philadelphia, 1858, T. S. Arthur and W. H. Carpenter
History of Georgia, New York 1913, Robert Preston Brooks
History of Georgia, New York 1938, Walter G. Cooper
A Short History of Georgia, Raleigh, 1933, E. Merton Coulter
History of Georgia, n.p. 1926, Clark Howell
Georgia Place Names, Macon Ga, 1975, Kenneth K. Krakow
History of Georgia: Biographical, several volumes, Chicago, 1926

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