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Georgia is located at approximately 33° N 83.5° W. The state has a total area of 154,077 km 2 (59,489 sq mi) and the geographic center is located in Twiggs County. [ 3] Georgia has primarily a humid subtropical climate with hot and humid summers, except at the highest elevations.
The following sortable table lists the 11 highest mountain peaks of Georgia with at least 100 feet (30 m) of topographic prominence. The eleven highest mountains in Georgia are all located in five counties in northeast Georgia.
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The U.S. state of Georgia is commonly divided into four geologic regions that influence the location of the state's four traditional physiographic regions. [ 1][ 2] The four geologic regions include the Appalachian foreland, Blue Ridge, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain. These four geologic regions commonly share names with and typically overlap the ...
The Chattahoochee National Forest is composed of an eastern and western forest. The western forest contains Johns Mountain, Little Sand Mountain, and Taylor Ridge (Georgia). The combined total area of the Chattahoochee–Oconee National Forest is 867,265 acres (3,510 km 2 ), of which the Chattahoochee National Forest comprises 751,069 acres ...
The State of Georgia's first constitution was ratified in February 1777. Georgia was the 10th state to ratify the Articles of Confederation on July 24, 1778, [13] and was the 4th state to ratify the United States Constitution on January 2, 1788. [14] Slaves with the cotton they had picked. Georgia, c. 1850
Vogel State Park is located 11 miles (18 km) south of Blairsville on US Highway 19 in the north Georgia mountains. At nearly 2,500 feet (760 m) altitude, Vogel State Park is usually cool during the summer months, and is one of Georgia's most popular state parks. [ 4] Vogel features hiking trails, cabins and a 20-acre (81,000 m 2) pond known as ...
The first statewide geologic map of Georgia was published in 1825. It was a 1:1,000,000 scale map of Georgia and Alabama published by Henry Schenck Tanner. [3] In 1849 W.T. Williams published the geological features for the state on a 1:120,000 scale map within George White's (1849) Statistics of the State of Georgia report. [4]