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Dalton
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city in Whitfield County, Georgia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Georgia
- County
- Whitfield
- Mayor
- Annalee Sams
- City
- 21.16 sq mi (54.80 km )
- Land
- 21.14 sq mi (54.76 km )
- Water
- 0.015 sq mi (0.04 km )
- Elevation
- 761 ft (232 m)
- Density
- 1,627.9/sq mi (628.52/km )
- Urban
- 102,599
- Metro
- 142,227
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Zip codes
- 30719-30722
- Area codes
- 706/762
- Fips code
- 13-21380
- Hdi 2021
- 0.861 – very high
- Website
- daltonga.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Dalton
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Whitfield County
- Population
- 34417
- Area
- 53.240263
- Elevation
- 232
- Capital of
- Whitfield County
- Official website
- www.cityofdalton-ga.gov
- Image
- Community-3.jpg
- Households
- 11777
- Dialing code
- 706
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- Commons category
- Dalton, Georgia
- topic's main category
- Category:Dalton, Georgia
- postal code
- 30722
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Dalton, Georgia
- inception
- 1847-00-00
- P8168
- Nathan Petrelli
- water as percent of area
- 0.0837
- per capita income
- 23481
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Encyclopedic overview
Dalton is a city and the county seat of Whitfield County, Georgia, United States. It is also the principal city of the Dalton Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Murray and Whitfield counties.
As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 34,417 people; the city's metro area was 124,837. Dalton is located just off Interstate 75 in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in northwest Georgia and is the second-largest city in northwest Georgia, after Rome.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dalton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.