Catoosa County

administration
Catoosa County Courthouse in ring gold , listed on NRHP No. 06000844
US state :	Georgia
Administrative headquarters :	Ring gold
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Catoosa County Administration 694 Nashville Street Ringgold, GA 30736
Foundation :	December 5, 1853
Made up from:	Walker County Whitfield County
Area code :	001 706
Demographics
Residents :	63,942 (2010)
Population density :	152.2 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	421 km²
Water surface :	1 km²
map

Website : www.catoosa.com

The Catoosa County is located in the state of Georgia to the United States . The county seat is Ringgold .

geography

The county is located in northwest Georgia, borders Tennessee to the north and has an area of 421 square kilometers, one square kilometer of which is water. The county is bordered clockwise by Whitfield Counties and Walker Counties .

The county is part of the Chattanooga metropolitan area .

history

Catoosa County was formed on December 5, 1853 from parts of Walker County and Whitfield County. It was named after a word of the Cherokee Indians Gatusi , which means something like "special hill" or "certain place on a mountain" and went very well with the hilly landscape of the county. In 1863 the Battle of Chickamauga took place here , one of the bloodiest battles in the American Civil War, which temporarily put an end to the advance of Union troops into the Confederate territories.

Others

The county is known in the United States for its wines and wine-growing regions.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1860	5082	-
1870	4409	-13.2%
1880	4739	7.5%
1890	5431	14.6%
1900	5823	7.2%
1910	7184	23.4%
1920	6677	-7.1%
1930	9421	41.1%
1940	12.199	29.5%
1950	15,146	24.2%
1960	21,101	39.3%
1970	28,271	34%
1980	36,991	30.8%
1990	42,464	14.8%
2000	53,282	25.5%
2010	63,942	20%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

According to the 2010 census, the 63,942 inhabitants at that time were distributed over 24,475 inhabited households, which gives an average of 2.59 people per household. There are a total of 24,475 households.

72.7% of the households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring) with an average size of 3.05 persons. There were children under the age of 18 in 36.3% of all households and persons aged 65 or over in 25.6% of all households.

27.5% of the population were younger than 20 years, 25.1% were 20 to 39 years old, 28.0% were 40 to 59 years old, and 19.4% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 38 years. 48.5% of the population were male and 51.5% were female.

93.6% of the population identified themselves as white, 2.2% as African-American , 0.3% as Native American and 1.2% as Asian Americans . 1.1% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 1.6% to several ethnic groups. 2.3% of the population was made up of Hispanics or Latinos .

The average annual income per household was 50,180 USD , while 13.1% of the population lived below the poverty line.