Georgia County Creation Dates and Parent Counties

Name of County	Date Formed	Parent County	Progeny Count
Appling	15 Dec 1818	Creek Indian Cession	Jeff Davis 1905, Pierce 1857, Bacon 1914, Charleton 1854, Coffee 1854, Echols 1858
Atkinson	Aug 1917	Coffee, Clinch	none
Bacon	27 Jul 1914	Appling, Pierce	none
Baker	12 Dec 1825	Early	Dougherty 1853, Miller 1856, Mitchell 1857
Baldwin	11 May 1803	Creek Indian lands	Jasper 1812, Jones 1807, Morgan 1807, Newton 1821, Putnam 1807
Banks	11 Dec 1858	Franklin, Habersham	none
Barrow	07 Jul 1914	Jackson, Walton	none
Bartow	06 Dec 1861	renamed from Cass	none
Ben Hill	31 Jul 1906	Irwin, Wilcox	none
Berrien	25 Feb 1856	Lowndes	Cook 1918, Lanier 1919, Tift 1905
Bibb	09 Dec 1822	Jones, Monroe	none
Bleckley	02 Oct 1912	Pulaski	none
Bourbon	1785	Indian lands	extinct, never functioned
Brantley	14 Aug 1920	Chalton, Pierce	none
Brooks	11 Dec 1858	Lowndes, Thomas	none
Bryan	19 Dec 1793	Effingham, Liberty	none
Bulloch	08 Feb 1796	Creek Indian lands	Candler 1914, Emanuel 1812, Evans 1914, Jenkins 1905
Burke	05 Feb 1777	St. George Parish	Jefferson 1796, Jenkins 1905, Screven 1793
Butts	24 Dec 1825	Henry, Monroe	none
Calhoun	20 Feb 1854	Early	none
Camden	05 Feb 1777	St. Mary Parish	Wayne 1803
Campbell	20 Dec 1828	Carroll, Cowta	merged with Fulton 1932
Candler	17 Jul 1914	Bullock, Emanuel	none
Carroll	11 Dec 1826	Indian lands	Campbell 1828, Douglas 1870, Heard 1830, Haralson 1856
Cass	03 Dec 1832	Cherokee	Gordon 1850, renamed Bartow 1861
Catoosa	05 Dec 1853	Walker, Cherokee	none
Charlton	18 Feb 1854	Wayne, Appling	Brantley 1920
Chatham	05 Feb 1777	St. Phillip Parish	none
Chattahoochee	13 Feb 1854	Muscogee, Randolph	none
Chattooga	28 Dec 1838	Floyd, Walker, Cherokee	none
Cherokee	26 Dec 1831	Cherokee Indian lands	Bartow 1832, Catoosa 1853, Chattooga 1838, Cobb 1832, Floyd 1832, Milton 1857, Paulding 1832, Pickens 1853
Christ Church Parish	15 Mar 1758	Savannah, Fredreica	none
Clarke	05 Dec 1801	Jackson	Madison 1811, Oconee 1875
Clay	16 Feb 1854	Early, Randolph	none
Clayton	30 Nov 1858	Fayette, Henry	none
Clinch	14 Feb 1850	Wayne	Atkinson 1917
Cobb	03 Dec 1832	Cherokee	Milton 1857
Coffee	09 Feb 1854	Appling, Irwin, Telfair	Atkinson 1917, Jeff Davis 1905
Colquitt	25 Feb 1856	Irwin, Thomas	none
Columbia	10 Dec 1790	Richmond	McDuffie 1870, Warren 1793
Cook	30 Jul 1918	Berrien	none
Coweta	11 Dec 1926	Indian lands	Campbell 1828, Heard 1830
Crawford	09 Dec 1822	Houston, Macon, Talbot	Taylor 1853, Upson 1824
Crisp	17 Aug 1905	Dooly	none
Dade	25 Dec 1837	Walker	none
Dawson	03 Dec 1857	Forsyth, Gilmer, Lumpkin	none
Decatur	08 Dec 1823	Early	Grady 1905, Seminole 1920, Thomas 1825
DeKalb	09 Dec 1922	Fayette, Henry	Fulton 1853
Dodge	26 Oct 1870	Montgomery, Pulaski, Telfair	none
Dooly	15 May 1821	Indian lands	Crisp 1905, Macon 1857, Turner 1905, Wilcox 1857, Worth 1852
Dougherty	15 Dec 1853	Baker	none
Douglas	17 Oct 1870	Carroll	none
Early	15 Dec 1818	Creek Land Cession	Baker 1825, Calhoun 1854, Clay 1854, Decatur 1857, Miller 1856, Seminole 1920
Echols	13 Dec 1858	Appling, Irwin	none
Effingham	05 Feb 1777	St. Matthew Parish	Bryan 1793, Screvan 1893
Elbert	10 Dec 1790	Wilkes	Hart 1853, Madison 1811
Emanuel	10 Dec 1812	Montgomery, Bullock	Treulton 1917, Candler 1914, Toombs 1905, Jenkins 1905, Johnson 1858
Evans	11 Aug 1914	Bullock, Tattnall	none
Fannin	21 Jan 1854	Gilmer, Union	none
Fayette	15 May 1821	Indian land cession	Clayton 1858, DeKalb 1822
Floyd	03 Dec 1832	Cherokee	Chattooga 1838, Gordon 1850
Forsyth	03 Dec 1832	Cherokee	Dawson 1857, Milton 1857
Franklin	23 Feb 1784	Cherokee land cession	Banks 1858, Hart 1784, Jackson 1796, Madison 1811, Stephens 1905
Fredrick	15 Apr 1741	Provincial Georgia	none
Fulton	20 Dec 1853	DeKalb	none
Gilmer	03 Dec 1832	Cherokee Cession	Dawson 1857, Fannin 1854, Pickens 1853
Glascock	19 Dec 1857	Warren	none
Glynn	05 Feb 1777	St. David, St. Patrick Parishes	Wayne 1803
Gordon	13 Feb 1850	Cass, Floyd	none
Grady	17 Aug 1905	Decatur, Thomas	none
Greene	03 Feb 1786	Washington	Hancock 1793, Taliaferro 1825
Gwinnett	15 Dec 1818	Cherokee lands	none
Habersham	15 Dec 1818	Cherokee Land Strip	Banks 1858, Stephens 1905, White 1857
Hall	15 Dec 1818	Cherokee Cession	none
Hancock	17 Dec 1793	Greene, Washington	Taliaferro 1825
Haralson	26 Jan 1856	Carroll, Polk	none
Harris	14 Dec 1827	Muscogee, Troup	none
Hart	07 Dec 1853	Elbert, Franklin, Madison	none
Heard	22 Dec 1830	Carroll, Coweta, Troup	none
Houston (old)	23 Feb 1784	Indian lands	dissolved
Houston	15 May 1821	Indian land cession	Crawford 1822, Macon 1857, Peach 1924
Irwin	15 Dec 1818	Cherokee land	Worth 152, Wilcox 1857, Ben Hill 1906, Coffee 1854, Colquitt 1856, Echols 1858, Lowndes 1835, Thomas 1825, Turner 1905, Ware 1824
Jackson	11 Feb 1796	Franklin	Barrow 1914, Clarke 1801, Madison 1811
Jasper	10 Dec 1812	Baldwin	Newton 1821
Jeff Davis	18 Aug 1905	Appling, Coffee	none
Jefferson	20 Feb 1796	Burke, Warren	none
Jenkins	17 Aug 1905	Bullock, Burke, Emanuel	none
Johnson	11 Dec 1858	Emanuel, Laurens	none
Jones	10 Dec 1807	Baldwin	Bibb 1822
Kinchafoonee	21 Feb 1856	Randolph	renamed Webster 1856
Lamar	17 Aug 1920	Monroe	none
Lanier	11 Aug 1919	Berrien, Lowndes	none
Laurens	10 Dec 1807	Washington, Wilkinson	Johnson 1858, Pulaski 1808
Lee	11 Dec 1827	Indian land cession	Macon 1857, Marion 1827, Randolph 1828, Sumter 1831, Terrell 1856
Liberty	05 Feb 1777	St. Andrew, St. James Parishes	Bryan 1793, Long 1920, McIntosh 1793
Lincoln	20 Feb 1796	Wilkes	none
Long	14 Aug 1920	Liberty	none
Lowndes	23 Dec 1835	Irwin	Berrien 1856, Brooks 1858, Lanier 1919
Lumpkin	03 Dec 1832	Cherokee Land	Dawson 1857, White 1857
McDuffie	18 Oct 1870	Columbia, Warren	none
McIntosh	19 Dec 1793	Liberty	none
Macon	14 Dec 1857	Dooly, Houston, Lee, Muscogee	Crawford 1822, Peach 1924, Schley 1857, Taylor 1853
Madison	11 Dec 1811	Clarke, Elbert, Franklin, Jackson, Ogelthorpe	Hart 1853
Marion	14 Dec 1827	Lee, Muscogee	Schley 1857, Taylor 1853
Meriwether	14 Dec 1827	Troup	none
Miller	26 Feb 1856	Baker, Early	none
Milton	18 Dec 1857	Cobb, Cherokee, Forsyth	merged with Fulton County 1932
Mitchell	21 Dec 1857	Baker	none
Monroe	15 May 1821	Indian lands	Bibb 1822, Butts 1825, Pike 1822, Lamar 1920, Taylor 1853
Montgomery	19 Dec 1793	Washington, Wilkinson	Dodge 1870, Emanuel 1812, Tattnall 1801, Toombs 1905, Treulten 1917, Wheeler 1912
Morgan	10 Dec 1807	Baldwin	none
Murray	03 Dec 1832	Cherokee	Walker 1833, Whitfield 1851
Muscogee	11 Dec 1826	Creek Indian lands	Chattahoochee 1854, Macon 1857, Harris 827, Talbot 1827
Newton	24 Dec 1821	Baldwin, Walton, Henry, Jasper	none
Oconee	25 Feb 1875	Clark	none
Oglethorpe	19 Dec 1783	Wilkes	Madison 1811
Paulding	03 Dec 1832	Cherokee	Polk 1851
Peach	1924	Houston, Macon	none
Pickens	0 Dec 1853	Cherokee, Gilmer	none
Pierce	18 Dec 1857	Appling, Ware	Bacon 1914, Blickley 1912, Brantley 1920
Pike	09 Dec 1822	Monroe	Spaulding 1851, Upson 1824
Polk	20 Dec 1851	Paulding	Haralson 1856
Pulaski	13 Dec 1808	Laurens	Blickley 1912, Pulaski 1870, Wilcox 1857
Putnam	10 Dec 1807	Baldwin	none
Quitman	10 Dec 1858	Randolph, Stewart	none
Rabun	21 Dec 1819	Cherokee Land Cession	Towns 1856
Randolph	20 Dec 1828	Lee	Webster 1856, Chattahoochee 1854, Clay 1854, Quitman 1858, Stewart 1830, Terrell 1856, Kinchafoonee 1856
Richmond	05 Feb 1777	St. Paul\'s Parish	Columbia 1790, Warren 1793
Rockdale	18 Oct 1870	Henry	none
Savannah	15 Apr 1741	Provincial Georgia	none
St. Andrew Parish	15 Mar 1758	Savannah, Frederica	Liberty 1777
St. David Parish	25 Mar 1765	Savannah, Frederica	Glynn 1777
St. George Parish	15 Mar 1758	Savannah, Frederica	Burke 1777
St. James Parish	15 Mar 1758	Savannah, Frederica	Liberty 1777
St. John Parish	15 Mar 1758	Savannah, Frederica	dissoluted
St. Mary Parish	25 Mar 1765	Savannah, Frederica	Camden 1777
St. Mathew Parish	17 Mar 1758	Savannah, Frederica	Effingham 1777
St. Patrick Parish	25 Mar 1765	Savannah, Frederica	Glynn 1777
St. Paul Parish	17 Mar 1758	Savannah, Frederica	Richmond 1777
St. Philip Parish	17 Mar 1758	Savannah, Frederica	Chatham 1777
St. Thomas Parish	25 Mar 1765	Savannah, Frederica	dissoluted
Schley	22 Dec 1857	Macon, Marion, Sumter	none
Screven	14 Dec 1793	Burke, Effingham	none
Seminole	08 Jul 1920	Decatur, Early	none
Spalding	20 Dec 1851	Henry, Pike	none
Stephens	18 Aug 1905	Franklin, Habersham	none
Stewart	23 Dec 1830	Randolph	Quitman 1858
Sumter	26 Dec 1831	Lee	Schley 1857
Talbot	14 Dec 1827	Muscogee, Troup	Crawford 1822, Taylor 1853, Taliaferro 1825
Tattnall	05 Dec 1801	Montgomery	Evans 1914, Toombs 1905
Taylor	15 Jan 1853	Crawford, Macon, Talbot, Monroe, Marion	none
Telfair	10 Dec 1807	Wilkinson	Coffee 1854, Dodge 1870
Thomas	23 Dec 1825	Decatur, Irwin	Brooks 1858, Colquitt 1856, Grady 1905
Tift	17 Aug 1905	Berrien, Worth	none
Toombs	17 Aug 1905	Emanuel, Tattnall, Montgomery	none
Towns	06 Mar 1856	Rabun, Union	none
Treutlen	21 Mar 1917	Emanuel, Montgomery	none
Troup	11 Dec 1826	Indian Land Cession	Harris 1827, Heard 1830, Meriwether 1827, Talbot 1827
Turner	18 Aug 1905	Dooly, Irwin, Wilcox, Worth	none
Twiggs	14 Dec 1809	Wilkinson	none
Union	03 De c1832	Cherokee	Fannin 1854, Towns 1856
Upson	15 Dec 1824	Crawford, Pike	none
Walker	18 Dec 1833	Murray	Catoosa 1853, Chattooga 1838, Dade 1837
Walton	15 Dec 1818	Cherokee Indian lands	Barrow 1914, Newton 1821
Ware	15 Dec 1824	Irwin	Pierce 1857
Warren	19 Dec 1793	Wilkes, Richmond, Columbia	Glascock 1857, Jefferson 1796, McDuffie 1870, Taliaferro 1825
Washington	25 Feb 1784	Indian Land Cession	Greene 1786, Hancock 1793, Laurens 1807, Montgomery 1793
Wayne	11 May 1803	Creek Indian lands, Charlton, Glynn, Camden	Charlton 1854, Clinch 1850
Webster	21 Feb 1856	reamed from Kinchafoonee	none
Wheeler	14 Nov 1912	Montgomery	none
White	22 Dec 1857	Habersham, Lumpkin	none
Whitfield	30 Dec 1851	Murray	none
Wilcox	22 Dec 1857	Dooly, Irwin, Pulaski	Ben Hill 1906, Turner 1905
Wilkes	5 Feb 1777	Indian lands	Warren 1793, Elbert 1790, Lincoln 1796, Taliaferro 1825, Ogelthorpe 1783
Wilkinson	11 May 1803	Creek Indian lands	Laurens 1807, Montgomery 1793, Telfair 1807, Twiggs 1809
Worth	20 Dec 1852	Dooly, Irwin	Tift 1905, Turner 1905