Coweta County, Georgia#Communities

The land for Lee, Muscogee, Troup, Coweta and Carroll counties was ceded by the Creek people in the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs. The counties' boundaries were created by the Georgia General Assembly on June 9, 1826, but they were not named until December 14, 1826. Coweta County was named for the Koweta Indians (a sub-group of the Creek people), who had several towns in and around the present-day county.{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/c.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030710215157/http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/c.pdf |archive-date=July 10, 2003 |url-status=live | title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=52 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}}

In the city of Newnan, on April 23, 1899, a notorious lynching occurred after an African-American man by the name of Sam Hose (born Tom Wilkes) was accused of killing his boss, Alfred Cranford. Hose was tortured and burned alive by a lynch mob of approximately 2,000 citizens of Coweta County.

On August 9, 1882, Aleck Brown was lynched.{{Cite web|url=http://lynching.csde.washington.edu/#/search/GA1882080901|title=CSDE Lynching Database|website=lynching.csde.washington.edu|language=en|access-date=September 21, 2017}}

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of {{convert|446|sqmi}}, of which {{convert|441|sqmi}} is land and {{convert|4.9|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 county is located in the Piedmont region of the state.

The eastern half of Coweta County, from Palmetto southwest to Newnan, then south to Luthersville, is in the Upper Flint River sub-basin of the ACF River Basin (Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin). The western half is in the Middle Chattahoochee River-Lake Harding sub-basin of the same ACF 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 19, 2015 |archive-date=October 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003004639/http://www.gaswcc.org/maps/ |url-status=dead }}

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• Fulton County – northeast
• Fayette County – east
• Spalding County – East/southeast
• Meriwether County – south
• Troup County – southwest
• Heard County – west
• Carroll County – northwest

• Chattahoochee Hills (partly in Fulton County)
• Grantville
• Newnan
• Palmetto (partly in Fulton County)
• Senoia

• Haralson
• Moreland
• Sharpsburg
• Turin

• East Newnan

• Corinth (partly in Heard County)
• Raymond
• Roscoe
• Sargent
• Thomas Crossroads

In the federal government's National Urban Policy and New Community Development Act of 1970, funding was provided for thirteen "new towns" or planned cities throughout the country. One 7,400-acre location was set to be developed in Coweta County and was known as Shenandoah.{{cite web |title=History of New Communities Program |url=http://mars.gmu.edu/bitstream/handle/1920/1775/484_18_03.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |website=GMU.edu |publisher=U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development |access-date=April 15, 2021}} The project was launched in the early 1970s and was foreclosed on in 1981, when it included 170 families and 108 residential lots.{{cite news |title=Shenandoah was origin of new community zoning |url=https://times-herald.com/news/2018/08/shenandoah-was-origin-of-new-community-zoning |access-date=July 20, 2021 |publisher=Newnan Times Herald}}

{{US Census population

|1830= 5003

|1840= 10364

|1850= 13635

|1860= 14703

|1870= 15875

|1880= 21109

|1890= 22354

|1900= 24980

|1910= 28800

|1920= 29047

|1930= 25127

|1940= 26972

|1950= 27786

|1960= 28893

|1970= 32310

|1980= 39268

|1990= 53853

|2000= 89215

|2010= 127317

|2020= 146158

|estyear=2023

|estimate=155892

|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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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

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As of the 2020 United States census, there were 146,158 people, 53,640 households, and 37,400 families residing in the county.

The Coweta County School System holds pre-school to grade 12, and consists of nineteen elementary schools, six middle schools and three high schools.[http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/ReportingFW.aspx?PageReq=111&PID=62&PTID=69&CountyId=638&T=0&FY=2009 Georgia Board of Education]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Retrieved August 2, 2014. The system has 1,164 full-time teachers and more than 18,389 students.[http://www.school-stats.com/GA/COWETA/COWETA_COUNTY.html School Stats], Retrieved August 2, 2014. Private schools in the county include The Heritage School and Trinity Christian School.

Mercer University has a Regional Academic Center in Newnan. The center, opened in 2010, offers programs through the university's College of Continuing and Professional Studies. The University of West Georgia has a campus near downtown Newnan on the site of the old Newnan Hospital. This campus offers two undergraduate programs - Bachelor of Science in nursing and early childhood education.{{Cite web|url=http://www.westga.edu/newnan/|title=UWG {{!}} University of West Georgia Newnan|last=Georgia|first=University of West|website=www.westga.edu|language=en|access-date=August 5, 2018}}

Newnan is also home to a campus of West Georgia Technical College.{{cite web |url=http://www.westgatech.edu/locations/coweta.htm |title=West Georgia Technical College |access-date=August 24, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110817051353/http://www.westgatech.edu/locations/coweta.htm |archive-date=August 17, 2011 }}>.

The legislative body of Coweta is the Coweta County Commission, which consists of five members elected from numbered districts. The chairmanship rotates among the members. Coweta County is the only county in Georgia that operates with a rotating chairmanship.

In the General Assembly, it is currently divided between State House district 70, 71, 72 and 132, and is within State Senate district 28 (currently held by Matt Brass). In Congress, it is in the 3rd congressional district, currently represented by Brian Jack.

Coweta is a strongly Republican county, voting 68.4 percent for Donald Trump in 2016 and 69.9 percent for Brian Kemp in 2018.

{{PresHead|place=Coweta 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 19, 2018}}}}

{{PresRow|2024|Republican|57,204|28,111|1,101|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|2020|Republican|51,501|24,210|1,134|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|2016|Republican|42,533|16,583|3,094|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|2012|Republican|39,653|15,168|897|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|2008|Republican|37,571|15,521|543|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|2004|Republican|31,682|10,647|280|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|2000|Republican|21,327|9,056|843|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1996|Republican|13,058|7,794|2,118|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1992|Republican|9,814|7,093|3,646|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1988|Republican|9,668|4,212|49|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1984|Republican|7,981|3,650|0|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|4,480|5,697|245|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|3,044|6,195|0|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1972|Republican|5,751|1,560|0|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1968|American Independent|2,442|1,204|3,791|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|3,656|3,712|0|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|1,159|3,855|0|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|850|3,003|0|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|652|3,837|0|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|219|2,214|216|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|130|2,649|0|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|103|2,846|8|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|73|2,260|3|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|46|2,183|6|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1928|Democratic|229|1,656|0|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|67|1,010|40|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|169|1,094|0|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|26|1,179|85|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|46|1,044|35|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1908|Democratic|220|1,032|20|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1904|Democratic|160|1,070|54|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1900|Democratic|232|1,063|7|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|571|1,196|25|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1892|Democratic|1,085|2,005|55|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1888|Democratic|990|1,476|6|Georgia}}

{{PresRow|1884|Democratic|1,326|1,489|0|Georgia}}

{{PresFoot|1880|Democratic|1,285|1,381|0|Georgia}}

• Ellis Gibbs Arnall, governor of Georgia, 1943–1947
• William Yates Atkinson, governor of Georgia, 1894–1896; founded Georgia State College for Women, now Georgia College & State University
• Steve Bedrosian, former Major League baseball player; National League Cy Young Award winner in 1987
• Eric Berry, football player for the Kansas City Chiefs
• Keith Brooking, football player for the Atlanta Falcons and Dallas Cowboys
• Erskine Caldwell, author of the novels Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre
• Lewis Grizzard, newspaper columnist, author and humorist
• Drew Hill, played for the pro football Houston Oilers, Los Angeles Rams and Atlanta Falcons
• Sam Hose, African-American man who was brutally murdered by a lynch mob after accusations of murder, assault and rape
• Alan Jackson, country music singer and musician
• Joe M. Jackson, colonel, U.S. Air Force, Medal of Honor recipient
• Warren Newson, played pro baseball for the Chicago White Sox
• Stephen W. Pless, major, U.S. Marine Corps, Medal of Honor recipient
• Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith, confidence man and crime boss
• Charles Wadsworth, retired director of the Chamber Music Society at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
• Jerome Walton, former Major League baseball player; Rookie of the Year in the National League in 1989
• Rutledge Wood, auto racing analyst and host of Top Gear
• Will Smith, professional baseball player for the Kansas City Royals

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• National Register of Historic Places listings in Coweta County, Georgia
• B. T. Brown Reservoir
• Murder in Coweta County
• Murder in Coweta County 1983 film
• List of counties in Georgia

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• [https://www.coweta.ga.us/ Website]

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|East = Fayette County

|Southeast = Spalding County

|South = Meriwether County

|Southwest = Troup County

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Category:Georgia (U.S. state) placenames of Native American origin

Coweta

Category:Georgia (U.S. state) counties

Category:Populated places established in 1826