Formed December 23, 1830 (77th county)
Stewart County (5,312), Lumpkin (884), Richland (1,368)
The Neo-Classical Revival courthouse in Lumpkin was built in 1895 and rebuilt in 1923 and renovated in 1936 and 2010. It is on a square on Broad, Cotton, and Main streets and Martin Luther King Drive. Georgia State Highway 27 is Broad Street in town. Andrew J. Bryan is the original architect of this red brick structure. The building features columns and a dome with a working clock. The county was created on December 23, 1830 from Randolph County as the 77th county with Lumpkin as the only county seat. Revolutionary War hero Daniel Stewart provided the inspiration for the county’s name. Governor Wilson Lumpkin provided his name for the county seat. He is also the source name for Lumpkin County. The county center is 4.7 miles North of Lumpkin.
Stewart County government consists of a sheriff, an administrator, a coroner, a clerk, and a tax commissioner (executive). It has 5 Commissioners (legislative.) Sixteen Superior Court Judges serve Stewart, Bibb, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Harris, Houston, Lee, Macon, Marion, Muscogee, Peach, Schley, Sumter, Talbot, Taylor, and Webster counties and Five County Judges, court clerk, and county attorney serve Stewart County (judicial.) The county is in southwest Georgia on the border with Alabama. Columbus is north and Albany is southeast of the location. The Chattahoochee River forms the western border with Alabama. The county is surrounded clockwise by Chattahoochee, Marion, Webster, Randolph, and Quitman counties and Alabama.
The area of the county is 459 square miles. It is 36 out of 159 counties in the state. It ranks 150 out of 159 in population in the state. It has a density of 11.6 persons per square mile making it 154 out of 159 in the state. Stewart County has 42.4% of its population in its incorporated areas. United States Highway 27 goes north to south through the county from Chattahoochee County to Randolph County. United States Highway 280 also enters from Chattahoochee County but travels east into Webster County. The county is rectangular with a bulge extending out to the west. Lumpkin is located in the southeast quarter of the county and Richland is on the eastern border. Lumpkin is the county seat and Richland is the largest city. Lumpkin is 16.6% of the county population while Richland is 25.8% of the county population.
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