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Spalding County
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county in Georgia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Georgia
- Founded
- 1851 ; 175 years ago ( 1851 )
- Named after
- Thomas Spalding
- Seat
- Griffin
- Largest city
- Griffin
- Total
- 200 sq mi (520 km )
- Land
- 196 sq mi (510 km )
- Water
- 3.1 sq mi (8.0 km ) 1.6%
- Estimate 2025
- 70,775
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 3rd
- Website
- spaldingcounty.com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Spalding County is a county in the West Central region of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 67,306. The county seat is Griffin. The county was created December 20, 1851, and named for former United States representative and senator Thomas Spalding.
Spalding County is included in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell MSA.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Spalding County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.