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| The land that would form Chatham
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. After the Trustees surrendered their charter
in 1752, Georgia became a royal colony. 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. Chatham
County consisted of all of Christ Church Parish and that part
of Saint Philip Parish south of the Canoochee River (see
map). In 1793, the legislature created Bryan County from
the western portion of Chatham County. In 1850, land from Effingham
County was annexed to Chatham. |
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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 |
232,048 |
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1990 |
216,935 |
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1980 |
202,226 |
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1970 |
187,816 |
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1960 |
188,299 |
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1950 |
151,481 |
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1940 |
117,970 |
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1930 |
105,431 |
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1920 |
100,032 |
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1910 |
79,690 |
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1900 |
71,239 |
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1890 |
57,740 |
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1880 |
45,023 |
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1870 |
41,279 |
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1860 |
31,043 |
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1850 |
23,901 |
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1840 |
18,801 |
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1830 |
14,127 |
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1820 |
14,737 |
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1810 |
13,540 |
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1800 |
12,946 |
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1790 |
10,769 |
Note: Original 1970 official
population was later corrected to figure shown above.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau
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