US Black Heritage 1880 Census Project, Georgia

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US Black Heritage Project; USBH 1880 Project

Goal: To create a profile for every Black American enumerated on the 1880 US federal census in Georgia.

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Total Population of Georgia in 1880: 1,542,180

Total Black Population of Georgia in 1880: 725,133

Counties in 1880	Total Pop.	Black Pop.	Spreadsheet	Status/Checked
Appling	5,276	1,192	Georgia #1
Baker	7,307	5,565	Georgia #23
Baldwin	13,806	9,294	Georgia #7
Banks	7,337	1,507	Georgia #13
Bartow	18,690	6,271	Georgia #25
Berrien	6,619	836	Georgia #13
Bibb	27,147	15,700
Brooks	11,727	6,057	Georgia #24
Bryan	4,929	2,561	Georgia #4
Bulloch	8,053	2,256	Georgia #4
Burke	27,128	21,031
Butts	8,311	4,034	Georgia #4
Calhoun	7,024	4,670	Georgia #11
Camden	6,183	4,092	Georgia#4
Campbell	6,470	3885
Carroll	16,901	2,310	Georgia #4
Catoosa	4,739	612	Georgia #13
Charlton	2,154	360	Georgia #1	Done!/Checked
Chatham	45,023	27,515
Chattahoochee	5,670	3,540	Georgia #1
Chattooga	10,021	2,040	Georgia #11
Cherokee	14,325	1,626	Georgia #4
Clarke	11,702	6,388
Clay	6,650	3,852
Clayton	8,027	3,089
Clinch	4,138	838	Georgia #13
Cobb	20,748	6,012	Georgia #23
Coffee	5,070	1,042	Georgia #11
Colquitt	2,527	105	Georgia #1	Done!/Checked
Columbia	10,465	7,435
Coweta	21,109	11,797
Crawford	8,656	4,716	Georgia #21
Dade	4,702	1,084	Georgia #13
Dawson	5,837	356	Georgia #13
Decatur	19,072	10,183
DeKalb	14,497	4,543	Georgia #21
Dodge	5,358	1,852	Georgia #13
Dooly	12,420	5,828	Georgia #8
Dougherty	12,622	10,670	Georgia #10
Douglas	6,934	1,471	Georgia #13
Early	7,611	4,596	Georgia #12
Echols	2,553	500	Georgia #14
Effingham	5,979	2,751
Elbert	12,957	6,872
Emanuel	9,759	3,085
Fannin	7,245	133	Georgia #14
Fayette	8,605	2,863
Floyd	24,418	9,460
Forsyth	10,559	1,487	Georgia #14
Franklin	11,453	2,547	Georgia #1	Done/
Fulton	49,137	20,842
Gilmer	8,386	126	Georgia #14
Glascock	3,577	1,071
Glynn	6,497	4,300	Georgia #11
Gordon	11,171	1,820	Georgia #14
Greene	17,547	11,974
Gwinnett	19,531	3,515	Georgia #19
Habersham	8,718	1,361
Hall	15,298	2,258	Georgia #1
Hancock	16,989	11,943
Haralson	5,974	153	Georgia #14
Harris	15,758	9,286
Hart	9,094	2,882
Heard	8,769	3,095
Henry	14,193	6,229	Georgia #25
Houston	22,414	16,390	Georgia #5
Irwin	2,696	535	Georgia #14
Jackson	16,297	5,157	Georgia #22
Jasper	11,851	7,593	Georgia #8
Jefferson	15,671	10,090
Johnson	4,800	1,345
Jones	11,613	7,860	Georgia #9
Laurens	10,053	4,351	Georgia #21
Lee	10,577	8,837
Liberty	10,649	7,061	Georgia #15
Lincoln	6,412	4,158
Lowndes	11,049	5,637	Georgia #12
Lumpkin	6,526	451	Georgia #1	Done
McDuffie	9,449	6,019	Georgia #23
McIntosh	6,241	4,695	Georgia #11
Macon	11,675	7,387
Madison	7,978	2,586
Marion	8,598	4,304
Meriwether	17,651	9,854	Georgia #2
Miller	3,720	1,393	Georgia #14
Milton	6,261	777	Georgia #14
Mitchell	9,392	5,203	Georgia #22
Monroe	18,808	12,115
Montgomery	5,381	1,871
Morgan	14,032	9,782
Murray	8,269	906
Muscogee	19,322	10,327
Newton	13,623	6,883
Oconee	6,351	3,024
Oglethorpe	15,400	9,931
Paulding	10,887	984
Pickens	6,790	145	Georgia #14
Pierce	4,538	1,472
Pike	15,849	8,069	Georgia #7
Polk	11,952	4,147
Pulaski	14,058	8,225
Putnam	14,539	11,021	Georgia #6
Quitman	4,392	2,619
Rabun	4,634	197	Georgia #1
Randolph	13,341	7,796
Richmond	34,665	17,464
Rockdale	6,238	2,689
Schley	5,302	3,073
Screven	12,786	6,613
Spalding	12,585	7,146
Stewart	13,998	9,622
Sumter	18,239	12,189
Talbot	14,115	9,667
Taliaferro	7,034	4,722	Georgia #22
Tattnall	6,988	1,974
Taylor	8,597	3,827
Telfair	4,828	2,161
Terrell	10,451	6,183	Georgia #24
Thomas	20,597	12,213
Towns	3,261	104	Georgia #14
Troup	20,565	13,970	Georgia #3
Twiggs	8,918	6,074	Georgia #24
Union	6,431	110	Georgia #14
Upson	12,400	6,267	Georgia #25
Walker	11,056	1,563
Walton	15,622	6,301
Ware	4,159	1,144
Warren	10,885	6,846
Washington	21,964	12,515
Wayne	5,980	1,920
Webster	5,237	2,570
White	5,341	590	Georgia #1
Whitfield	11,900	2,210	Georgia #12
Wilcox	3,109	698	Georgia #16
Wilkes	15,985	10,812	Georgia #33
Wilkinson	12,061	5,511	Georgia #9
Worth	5,892	1,824

Thank you to our spreadsheet creation helpers for Georgia

• Donna Baumann
• Katie Bryant
• M Cole
• Dot Davis
• Lucy Selvaggio-Diaz
• Evelyn Sherr

Sources

• "1880 Census: Volume 1. Statistics of the Population of the United States;" Table V: Population, by Race and by Counties: 1880, 1870, 1860; page 385-386, Georgia; image copy, United States Census Bureau, https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1880/vol-01-population/1880_v1-13.pdf : accessed 30 Dec 2023.