Brantley County, Georgia

{{Infobox U.S. county

| county = Brantley County

| state = Georgia

| seal = BrantleyCountyGAseal.png

| seal size = 90px

| logo = BrantleyCountyLogo.png

| logo size = 130px

| type = County

| founded = {{start date and age|1920}}

| seat wl = Nahunta

| largest city wl = Nahunta

| area_total_sq_mi = 447

| area_land_sq_mi = 442

| area_water_sq_mi = 4.8

| area percentage = 1.1%

| census yr = 2020

| pop = 18021

| density_sq_mi = 42

| time zone = Eastern

| district = 1st

| website = {{URL|https://brantleycounty-ga.gov|brantleycounty-ga.gov}}

| ex image = Brantley County Courthouse, Nahunta, GA, USA.jpg

| ex image cap = Brantley County Courthouse in Nahunta

| named for = Benjamin Daniel Brantleyhttps://brantleycounty-ga.gov/brantley-counties-history/ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}{{cite web | url=https://sites.rootsweb.com/~gabrantl/namesake.html | title=Brantley County, Georgia - History }}{{cite web | url=https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/brantley-county/ | title=Brantley County }} or William Gordon Brantley{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/b.pdf | title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=24 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}}

}}

Brantley County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,021.{{cite web|title=State & County QuickFacts|url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/13/13025.html|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=June 18, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607122012/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/13/13025.html|archive-date=June 7, 2011|url-status=dead}} The county seat is Nahunta.{{cite web|url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |access-date=June 7, 2011 |title=Find a County |publisher=National Association of Counties |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531210815/http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |archive-date=May 31, 2011 }} Brantley County is part of the Brunswick, Georgia metropolitan statistical area.

History

Georgia voters passed a state constitutional amendment on November 2, 1920, to form Brantley County from pieces of three earlier surrounding Georgia counties: Charlton, Pierce, and Wayne counties. Although the precise origin of the county name is unknown, it is believed that it honors U.S. Representative (congressman) William Gordon Brantley or his father, Benjamin Daniel Brantley, a well-known local merchant and Confederate States Army soldier in the American Civil War (1861–1865).{{Cite book |url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Brantley_County%2C_a_sketch_of_the_life_of_the_late_Benjamin_Daniel_Brantley_for_whom_the_proposed_county_is_named_%28IA_brantleycountysk00jack%29.pdf |title=Brantley County, a sketch of the life of the late Benjamin Daniel Brantley for whom the proposed county is named |date=August 15, 1920 |publisher=Savannah Morning News |location=Savannah, Georgia |lccn=}}{{Cite web |title=BRANTLEY COUNTY, GEORGIA - HISTORY |url=https://sites.rootsweb.com/~gabrantl/namesake.html |access-date=April 9, 2024 |website=sites.rootsweb.com}}{{Cite web |title=Brantley County |url=https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/brantley-county/ |access-date=April 9, 2024 |website=New Georgia Encyclopedia |language=en-US}}

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of {{convert|447|sqmi}}, of which {{convert|442|sqmi}} is land and {{convert|4.8|sqmi}} (1.1%) is water.{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=April 23, 2011|date=February 12, 2011|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}} The Satilla River runs through Brantley County.

The bulk of Brantley County, from east of Hortense south to west of Waynesville and west to east of Waycross, is located in the Satilla River sub-basin of the St. Marys-Satilla basin. The county's eastern border area, east of Waynesville, is located in the Cumberland-St. Simons sub-basin of the St. Marys-Satilla River basin. A small northwestern corner, west of Hortense, is located in the Little Satilla sub-basin of the larger St. Marys-Satilla River basin, and a very small southwestern corner of Brantley County is located in the Upper Suwannee River sub-basin of the larger Suwannee River basin.{{cite web |url=http://www.gaswcc.org/maps/ |title=Georgia Soil and Water Conservation Commission Interactive Mapping Experience |publisher=Georgia Soil and Water Conservation Commission |access-date=November 27, 2015 |archive-date=October 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003004639/http://www.gaswcc.org/maps/ |url-status=dead }}

= Major highways =

{{jct|US|82|state=GA}}
{{jct|US|301|state=GA}}
{{jct|GA|15|state=GA}}
{{jct|GA|23|state=GA}}
{{jct|GA|32|state=GA}}
{{jct|GA|110|state=GA}}
{{jct|GA|121|state=GA}}
{{jct|GA|520|state=GA}}
{{jct|GA|95|state=GA}}

=Adjacent counties=

Wayne County - northeast
Glynn County - east
Camden County - southeast
Charlton County - south
Ware County - west
Pierce County - northwest

= Communities =

== Cities ==

== Census-designated places ==

== Unincorporated communities ==

Demographics

{{US Census population

|1930= 6895

|1940= 6871

|1950= 6387

|1960= 5891

|1970= 5940

|1980= 8701

|1990= 11077

|2000= 14629

|2010= 18411

|align-fn=center

|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade.html|title=Decennial Census of Population and Housing by Decades|publisher=US Census Bureau|access-date=}}
1790-1880{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink= |title= 1880 Census Population by Counties 1790-1800 |website=US Census Bureau|date= 1880|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1880/vol-01-population/1880_v1-08.pdf|accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=|page=}} 1890-1910{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink= |title= 1910 Census of Population - Georgia |website=US Census Bureau|date= 1910|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1910/abstract/supplement-ga.pdf |accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=|page=}}
1920-1930{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink= |title= 1930 Census of Population - Georgia |website=US Census Bureau|date= 1930|url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/03815512v1ch04.pdf |accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=|page=}} 1930-1940{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink= |title= 1940 Census of Population - Georgia |website=US Census Bureau|date= 1940|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1940/population-volume-1/33973538v1ch04.pdf |accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=}}
1940-1950{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink= |title= 1950 Census of Population - Georgia - |website=US Census Bureau|date= 1950|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1950/population-volume-2/37779083v2p11ch2.pdf |accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=}} 1960-1980{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink= |title= 1980 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - Georgia |website=US Census Bureau|date= 1980|url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1980a_gaABC-01.pdf|accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=}}
1980-2000{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink= |title= 2000 Census of Population - Population and Housing Unit Counts - Georgia |website=US Census Bureau|date= 2000|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2003/dec/phc-3-12.pdf |accessdate=|archive-url=| archive-date=}} 2010

|2020=18021

|estyear=2023

|estimate=18401

|estref={{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/tables.html|title=Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Counties: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2023|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=March 31, 2024}}}}

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|+Brantley County, Georgia – Racial and ethnic composition
{{nobold|Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.}}

!Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic)

!Pop 2000{{Cite web|title=P004 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2000: DEC Summary File 1 – Brantley County, Georgia|url=https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALSF12000.P004?g=050XX00US13025|publisher=United States Census Bureau}}

!Pop 2010{{Cite web|title=P2: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Brantley County, Georgia|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=p2&g=050XX00US13025&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|publisher=United States Census Bureau}}

!{{partial|Pop 2020}}{{Cite web|title=P2: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Brantley County, Georgia|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=050XX00US13025&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|publisher=United States Census Bureau}}

!% 2000

!% 2010

!{{partial|% 2020}}

White alone (NH)

|13,712

|17,198

|style='background: #ffffe6; |16,317

|93.73%

|93.41%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |90.54%

Black or African American alone (NH)

|579

|531

|style='background: #ffffe6; |562

|3.96%

|2.88%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |3.12%

Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)

|20

|56

|style='background: #ffffe6; |45

|0.14%

|0.30%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.25%

Asian alone (NH)

|13

|37

|style='background: #ffffe6; |42

|0.09%

|0.20%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.23%

Pacific Islander alone (NH)

|style='background: #ffffe6; |3

|0.01%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.02%

Other race alone (NH)

|10

|style='background: #ffffe6; |34

|0.02%

|0.05%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.19%

Mixed race or Multiracial (NH)

|149

|234

|style='background: #ffffe6; |692

|1.02%

|1.27%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |3.84%

Hispanic or Latino (any race)

|152

|343

|style='background: #ffffe6; |326

|1.04%

|1.86%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |1.81%

Total

|14,629

|18,411

|style='background: #ffffe6; |18,021

|100.00%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |100.00%

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 18,021 people, 6,823 households, and 4,578 families residing in the county.

Education

Politics

{{PresHead|place=Brantley County, Georgia|source={{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|last=Leip|first=David|website=uselectionatlas.org|access-date=March 18, 2018}}}}

{{PresFoot|1924|Democratic|9|238|32|Georgia}}Brantley County is a Republican stronghold. The last Democrat to carry the county was Bill Clinton in 1992, and it has swung hard to the right in the following elections. In 2020, Donald Trump carried the county with 90.2% of the vote, the most out of any county in Georgia.

References

[https://web.archive.org/web/20060629234705/http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/courthouses/brantleyCH.htm GeorgiaInfo Brantley County Courthouse History]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20060222000519/http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/courthouses/brantleyCHmarker.htm GeorgiaInfo record of the Brantley County State Historical Marker]