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| The land that would form Burke
County was ceded to the English by the Creeks in the Treaty of
Savannah on May 21, 1733, confirmed and expanded by agreements
of 1735 and 1736. By an act of March 15, 1758, the colonial legislature
created seven parishes. With the outbreak of the American Revolution,
Whig forces took control of government in Georgia. On Feb. 5,
1777, they adopted the state's first constitution -- the Constitution
of 1777. Art. IV of that document transformed the existing colonial
parishes into seven counties, with Indian ceded lands forming
an eighth county. Burke County was formed from Saint George parish
(see
map). Between 1793 and 1905, the legislature took land from
Burke County to help form the new counties of Screven (1793),
Jefferson (1796), and Jenkins (1905), and to add area to Richmond
County (1841). |
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Useful Census
Links:
U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. Historical
Census Data Browser
Census 2000 (Georgia
Tech State Data and Research Center)
Georgia 2000 Information
System (University of Georgia ITOS)
Galileo
Demographic & Census Data
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Census |
Pop. |
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2000 |
22,243 |
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1990 |
20,579 |
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1980 |
19,349 |
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1970 |
18,255 |
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1960 |
20,596 |
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1950 |
23,458 |
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1940 |
26,520 |
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1930 |
29,224 |
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1920 |
30,836 |
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1910 |
27,268 |
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1900 |
30,165 |
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1890 |
28,501 |
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1880 |
27,128 |
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1870 |
17,679 |
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1860 |
17,165 |
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1850 |
16,100 |
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1840 |
13,176 |
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1830 |
11,833 |
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1820 |
11,577 |
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1810 |
10,858 |
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1800 |
9,504 |
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1790 |
9,467 |
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau
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