Glascock County

administration
Glascock County Courthouse
US state :	Georgia
Administrative headquarters :	Gibson
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Glascock County Administration P.O. Box 66 Gibson, Georgia, 30810-0066
Foundation :	December 19, 1857
Area code :	001 706
Demographics
Residents :	3082 (2010)
Population density :	8.3 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	374 km²
Water surface :	1 km²
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The Glascock County is a county in the state of Georgia to the United States . The county seat is Gibson , named after Judge William Gibson , a former Confederate Army colonel.

geography

The county is located in northeast Georgia and about 70 km to the east from South Carolina . It has an area of 374 square kilometers, one square kilometer of which is water. It is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Jefferson County , Washington County , Hancock County, and Warren Counties .

history

Glascock County was formed on December 19, 1857. It was named after Thomas Glascock , a brigadier general in the First Seminole War and a member of the US Congress .

Worth seeing

Many historic buildings have been preserved in Glascock County and are also listed on the National Database of Historic Places. Of particular note are the County Courthouse, 1880 Kelley House , 1890 Victorian Peebles Home, and 1828 James Kelley / Sherman Harris place .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1860	2437	-
1870	2736	12.3%
1880	3577	30.7%
1890	3720	4%
1900	4516	21.4%
1910	4669	3.4%
1920	4192	-10.2%
1930	4388	4.7%
1940	4547	3.6%
1950	3579	-21.3%
1960	2672	-25.3%
1970	2280	-14.7%
1980	2382	4.5%
1990	2357	-1 %
2000	2556	8.4%
2010	3082	20.6%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

According to the 2010 census, the then 3082 inhabitants were distributed over 1162 inhabited households, which gives an average of 2.58 people per household. There are a total of 1519 households.

69.2% of the households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring) with an average size of 3.14 persons. There were children under the age of 18 in 37.3% of all households and persons aged 65 and over in 26.3% of all households.

31.5% of the population were younger than 20 years old, 22.7% were 20 to 39 years old, 28.3% were 40 to 59 years old, and 20.6% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 39 years. 48.2% of the population were male and 51.8% were female.

89.8% of the population identified themselves as white, 8.2% as African-American and 0.2% as Native American . 0.6% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 1.1% to several ethnic groups. 1.1% of the population was made up of Hispanics or Latinos .

The average annual income per household was 40,089 USD , while 16.6% of the population lived below the poverty line.