Evans County
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Georgia
- Founded
- 1914 ; 112 years ago ( 1914 )
- Named after
- Clement A. Evans
- Seat
- Claxton
- Largest city
- Claxton
- Total
- 187 sq mi (480 km )
- Land
- 183 sq mi (470 km )
- Water
- 4.0 sq mi (10 km ) 2.1%
- Estimate 2025
- 11,028
- Density
- 59/sq mi (23/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 12th
- Website
- www .evanscounty .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
Evans County is a county in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,774. The county seat is Claxton. A bill creating the county was passed in the Georgia General Assembly on August 11, 1914, and later, on November 3, 1914, an amendment was ratified by a vote of the people which formally created the county. Evans became part of the Statesboro micropolitan area in 2023, joining Bulloch County.
Evans County is located in an area known as the Magnolia Midlands within the Historic South region. The current Evans County Courthouse was created in 1923 and, in 1940, the people of Evans County elected their first female sheriff. Later, in the 1950s and 1960s, new growth came to the county with the building of Evans Memorial Hospital and the Claxton-Evans County Airport. In 2010, the population was 11,000; however, the 2012 Census Estimate showed a population of 10,689.