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Cook County
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county in Georgia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Georgia
- Founded
- 1918 ; 108 years ago ( 1918 )
- Named after
- Philip Cook
- Seat
- Adel
- Largest city
- Adel
- Total
- 233 sq mi (600 km )
- Land
- 227 sq mi (590 km )
- Water
- 6.0 sq mi (16 km ) 2.6%
- Estimate 2025
- 18,232
- Density
- 76/sq mi (29/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 8th
- Website
- www .cookcountyga .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Philip Cook
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Georgia
- Capital
- Adel
- Population
- 17229
- Area
- 604
- Shares border with
- Colquitt County
- Official website
- www.cookcountyga.us
- Image
- CookCountyCourthouse.jpg
- Households
- 6202
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- water as percent of area
- 2.6
- native label
- Cook County
- Commons category
- Cook County, Georgia
- topic's main category
- Category:Cook County, Georgia
- inception
- 1918-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Cook County, Georgia
- different from
- Cooke County
- per capita income
- 20769
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Encyclopedic overview
Cook County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,229. The county seat is Adel. The constitutional amendment to create the county was proposed July 30, 1918, and ratified November 5, 1918. It is named for former Civil War general Philip Cook of the Confederate States Army.
Reed Bingham State Park is in Cook County.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cook County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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