Warren

Formed December 19, 1793 (20^th county)

Warren County (5,211), Warrenton (1,740)

The red brick courthouse, built in 1909 and remodeled in 2000, sits on Court Square at Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway and Main Street.  There was an 1809 courthouse as well.  United States Highway 278 is Main Street.  Walter Chamberlin is the building designer of this Neo-Classical Revival structure.  The facility has a dome and columns.  Veteran memorials are on the grounds.  Warren County is created on December 19, 1793 from parts of Columbia, Hancock, Richmond, and Wilkes counties as the 20^th county.  Two homes were used for county courts until 1797 when Warrenton became the county seat.  The county and county seat are named for Revolutionary War General Joseph Warren.  The county center is 3.6 miles Northwest of Warrenton nearer Norwood. 

Warren County government consists of a sheriff, an administrator, a coroner, a clerk, and a tax commissioner (executive).  It has 3 Commissioners (legislative.)  Twenty-four Superior Court Judges serve Warren, Banks, Barrow, Burke, Clarke, Columbia, Elbert, Franklin, Glascock, Hart, Jackson, Lincoln, Madison, McDuffie, Newton, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Richmond, Taliaferro, Walton, and Wilkes counties and Two County Judges, court clerk, and county attorney serve Warren County (judicial.) The county is in eastern Georgia to the west of Augusta, Georgia and southeast of Athens, Georgia.  The Ogeechee River forms its western border.  The county is surrounded clockwise by Wilkes, McDuffie, Glascock, Hancock, and Taliaferro counties. 

The area of the county is 286 square miles.  It is 103 out of 159 counties in the state.  It ranks 151 out of 159 in population in the state.  It has a density of 18.2 persons per square mile making it 148 out of 159 in the state.  Warren County has 39.9% of its population in its incorporated areas.  Interstate Highway 20 crosses the northern part of the county from east to west from McDuffie County to Taliaferro County.  United States Highway 278 parallels Interstate Highway 20 from McDuffie County to Taliaferro County.  The county’s shape resembles a cooking pan.  Warrenton is slightly southeast of center in the county.  Warrenton is the county seat and the largest city.  It is 33.4% of the county population.