Garden City
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city in Chatham County, Georgia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Georgia
- County
- Chatham
- Mayor
- Bruce Campbell
- City manager
- Scott Robider
- Total
- 14.47 sq mi (37.48 km )
- Land
- 14.32 sq mi (37.08 km )
- Water
- 0.15 sq mi (0.40 km )
- Elevation
- 16 ft (4.9 m)
- Density
- 718.6/sq mi (277.46/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Fips code
- 13-32048
- Gnis feature id
- 0331788
- Website
- www .gardencity-ga .gov
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Encyclopedic overview
Garden City is a city in Chatham County, Georgia, United States, located just northwest of Savannah. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 10,289. Part industrial and part residential, the city is home to much of the heavy industry in Chatham County. It is part of the Savannah metropolitan area. It hosts the largest and busiest ocean terminal of the Port of Savannah, the flagship operation of the Georgia Ports Authority.
Garden City was created in 1939 as Industrial City Gardens, a community intended to house the large workforce required by the new factories and chemical plants just west of downtown Savannah. Garden City is part of the Savannah metropolitan statistical area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Garden City” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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