Heard County was created on Dec. 22, 1830 by an act of the General Assembly (Ga. Laws 1830, p. 48). Formed from Carroll, Coweta, and Troup counties, Heard County's original boundaries were defined as:

". . . all that territory lying within the following bounds, viz: commencing on the Chattahoochee river, at the corner of fraction number one hundred and sixty-one, and one hundred sixty three, in the fourth district of Carroll county; thence west, a straight line to the Alabama line, thence along said line, to the north west corner of lot number one hundred and sixty, in the fifteenth district, formerly Carroll now Troup county; thence a straight line to the corner of fraction, number forty eight, on the river, in the fourteenth district of formerly Carroll now Troup county; thence up said river, to the mouth of Potatoe creek, in the twelfth district of Troup county; thence a straight line to the south east corner of lot number one hundred and twenty, in the third district of Coweta county; thence a straight line to the north west corner, of fraction number one hundred and seventy-six, in the fourth district of Coweta, on the Chattahoochee river; thence a straight line to the beginning corner . . . ."

Georgia's 77th county was named for Stephen Heard (1740-1815), a hero of the American Revolution who in 1780-81 served as president of Georgia's Executive Council (an early state government office analogous to governor).

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