Newborn, Georgia
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|area_code = 770
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|blank_info = 13-54656{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=January 31, 2008|title=U.S. Census website}}
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Newborn is a town in Newton County, Georgia, United States. The population was 676 in 2020.
History
After hearing a sermon by 19th-century preacher Samuel Porter Jones, the town adopted the name "Newborn", after the concept of born again in Evangelical Christianity.{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/n.pdf| title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=157 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}} The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Newborn as a town in 1894.{{cite book|title=Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ai9AAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA174|year=1895|publisher=Clark & Hines, State Printers|page=174}}
Geography
Newborn is located at {{coord|33|31|1|N|83|41|40|W|type:city}} (33.516980, -83.694572).{{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}}
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of {{convert|1.6|sqmi|km2}}, all land.
Demographics
{{US Census population
|1890= 230
|1900= 345
|1910= 475
|1920= 409
|1930= 332
|1940= 307
|1950= 298
|1960= 283
|1970= 269
|1980= 387
|1990= 404
|2000= 520
|2010= 696
|2020= 676
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015}}
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As of the census of 2000, there were 520 people, 181 households, and 148 families living in the town. By 2020, its population was 676.
References
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{{Newton County, Georgia}}
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