{"id":2393,"date":"2023-03-25T23:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T23:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:25:04","slug":"thomas-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/thomas-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas County, Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas County is a county in Georgia, United States, about 34 miles northeast of Tallahassee, Florida. It had a population of 45,798 at the 2020 census, an estimated 45,777 by 2024, and covers 545 square miles (1,410 km2) centred near 30&deg;52&prime;N 83&deg;55&prime;W.<\/p>\n<p>Thomasville is the county seat and the county&#8217;s largest city; its postal code is 31792. The county holds 7 incorporated cities and 24 unincorporated communities, has no civil townships, and it runs on Eastern Time. Its FIPS code is 13275.<\/p>\n<h2>Towns &amp; Villages in Thomas County<\/h2>\n<p>Thomas County has 31 named places on record: 7 incorporated cities and 24 unincorporated communities with no local government of their own. Georgia has no civil townships, so this table skips that column; Unincorp. covers crossroads, former rail stops and old plantation-district names with no formal boundary.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Pop.<\/th>\n<th>ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Thomasville<\/td>\n<td>City &middot; seat<\/td>\n<td>18,881<\/td>\n<td>31792<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Boston<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>1,207<\/td>\n<td>31626<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ochlocknee<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>672<\/td>\n<td>31773<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pavo<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>622<\/td>\n<td>31778<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Meigs<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>928<\/td>\n<td>31765<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Barwick<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>363<\/td>\n<td>31720<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Coolidge<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>528<\/td>\n<td>31738<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pebble Hill<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Booker Heights<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Chastain<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dawesville<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dewey City<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dillon<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Eason<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Enon<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Everett<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Five Forks<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Fletcherville<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Fredonia<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Glasgow<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hansell<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Homestead Park<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>McLoughlin Heights<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Merrillville<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Metcalf<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Newark<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pasco<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Patten<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Piscola<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Quality<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theodore Heights<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Three places on this list straddle county lines. Barwick sits astride the Brooks County line; its 2020 census total of 363 splits into roughly 240 residents on the Thomas County side and 146 in Brooks County. Meigs reaches north into Mitchell County, which runs its own school district for residents on that side of the line, while the Thomas County side uses the Thomas County School District. Pavo straddles the Brooks County line the other way &mdash; of its 622 residents, about 379 live in Thomas County and 248 in Brooks County.<\/p>\n<h2>ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>31792 &mdash; Thomasville (the county&#8217;s most populous ZIP, also serves the PO-box-only codes 31799 and 31758)<\/li>\n<li>31757 &mdash; Thomasville (rural route ZIP covering the county&#8217;s east side)<\/li>\n<li>31773 &mdash; Ochlocknee<\/li>\n<li>31626 &mdash; Boston<\/li>\n<li>31778 &mdash; Pavo<\/li>\n<li>31738 &mdash; Coolidge<\/li>\n<li>31765 &mdash; Meigs<\/li>\n<li>31720 &mdash; Barwick (administered jointly with the Brooks County side of the city)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None of the 24 unincorporated communities &mdash; Pebble Hill, Booker Heights, Dillon, Fredonia and the rest &mdash; carries its own ZIP code; mail there is delivered under the nearest incorporated city&#8217;s code.<\/p>\n<h2>Geography<\/h2>\n<p>Thomas County sits in Georgia&#8217;s Red Hills Region, a belt of rolling clay hills and longleaf pine forest that runs along the Georgia&#8211;Florida line. Of its 552 square miles, 545 are land and 7.6 are water, about 1.4 percent &mdash; the Ochlockonee River, which gave the town of Ochlocknee its name, crosses the county&#8217;s western half on its way south into Florida. The Red Hills also carry the county&#8217;s best-known landscape feature: a cluster of large 19th- and early-20th-century hunting plantations, including Pebble Hill Plantation just south of Thomasville, now open to the public as a house museum.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell County lies to the northwest, Colquitt County to the northeast, Brooks County to the east, and Grady County to the west. Across the Florida state line, Jefferson County, Florida borders Thomas County to the south and Leon County, Florida borders it to the southwest. <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/mitchell-county\/\">Mitchell County<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/colquitt-county\/\">Colquitt County<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/brooks-county\/\">Brooks County<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/grady-county\/\">Grady County<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/jefferson-county-florida\/\">Jefferson County, Florida<\/a> all have posts on this site; Leon County, Florida does not.<\/p>\n<h2>Demographics<\/h2>\n<p>Thomas County had a population of 45,798 at the 2020 census, and the latest estimate puts the county near 45,777 residents, essentially flat over the past few years. Thomasville and Boston are by far the two largest communities, with Thomasville alone holding more than 40 percent of the county&#8217;s population. Median household income runs $60,736, well below Georgia&#8217;s statewide figure of $74,632. Population density works out to roughly 84 people per square mile of land, low for a county anchoring its own micropolitan area, reflecting the large amount of land still held in forestry and plantation use outside Thomasville.<\/p>\n<h2>Economy &amp; Local Life<\/h2>\n<p>Health care and social assistance employs the most workers in the county, about 4,096 people, followed by retail trade at 2,599 and manufacturing at 1,951. Archbold Medical Center, based at John D. Archbold Memorial Hospital in Thomasville, is the county&#8217;s largest single employer and the region&#8217;s main hospital system. Flowers Foods, one of the largest bakery companies in the United States, is headquartered in Thomasville. Senior Life Insurance Company also has its home office there. Thomas University and Southern Regional Technical College both run main campuses in Thomasville, giving the city a bigger higher-education footprint than its size would suggest. The county&#8217;s biggest annual event is the Thomasville Rose Show and Festival, held the last week of April, when rose growers from across the country come to see the city&#8217;s roughly 1,000 planted roses.<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p>The Georgia General Assembly created Thomas County on 23 December 1825, carving it from Decatur and Irwin counties along the Florida line. It was named for Jett Thomas, a general in the War of 1812 who also supervised construction of the University of Georgia&#8217;s first building. Thomasville was laid out as the county seat soon after.<\/p>\n<p>After the Civil War, Thomasville&#8217;s mild winters and rail connections made it a fashionable Northern winter resort through the 1880s and 1890s, drawing wealthy industrialists who built grand hotels downtown and, later, bought up surrounding farmland for quail-hunting plantations. That plantation belt, stretching into neighbouring Grady County, still shapes land use across rural Thomas County today, and several of the original estates, including Pebble Hill, remain intact.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting There<\/h2>\n<p>No interstate highway crosses Thomas County. US Route 19, US Route 84 and US Route 319 all run through it, along with several state routes connecting Thomasville to the surrounding towns.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tallahassee, Florida &mdash; about 34 miles south<\/li>\n<li>Valdosta &mdash; about 55 miles east<\/li>\n<li>Albany &mdash; about 55 miles northwest<\/li>\n<li>Moultrie &mdash; about 30 miles northeast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tallahassee International Airport, about 40 miles south of Thomasville, is the nearest commercial airport. Thomasville Regional Airport handles general aviation traffic only, with no scheduled airline service. No Amtrak route runs anywhere near the county; the closest station is in Savannah, roughly 230 miles northeast on the Silver Meteor and Silver Star lines.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Where is Thomas County located?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt sits in Georgia&#8217;s Red Hills Region along the Florida line, about 34 miles northeast of Tallahassee, bordered by Mitchell, Colquitt, Brooks and Grady counties in Georgia and Jefferson and Leon counties in Florida.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the population of Thomas County?<\/strong><br \/>\n45,798 at the 2020 census, with a 2024 estimate near 45,777.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big is Thomas County?<\/strong><br \/>\n552 square miles (1,410 km2) in total, of which 545 square miles are land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the county seat of Thomas County?<\/strong><br \/>\nThomasville, founded soon after the county&#8217;s creation in 1825, is the county seat and largest city.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many towns and cities are in Thomas County?<\/strong><br \/>\nSeven incorporated cities &mdash; Thomasville, Boston, Ochlocknee, Pavo (partly), Meigs (partly), Barwick (partly) and Coolidge &mdash; plus 24 unincorporated communities such as Pebble Hill, Dillon and Fredonia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What ZIP codes does Thomas County use?<\/strong><br \/>\n31792, 31757, 31799 and 31758 for Thomasville; 31773 for Ochlocknee; 31626 for Boston; 31778 for Pavo; 31738 for Coolidge; 31765 for Meigs; and 31720 for Barwick.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Thomas County known for?<\/strong><br \/>\nIts Red Hills quail-hunting plantations, including Pebble Hill Plantation, and Thomasville&#8217;s annual Rose Show and Festival each April.<\/p>\n<p>More counties in this state: <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/category\/georgia\/\">Towns and villages in Georgia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas County is a county in Georgia, United States, about 34 miles northeast of Tallahassee, Florida. It had a population of 45,798 at the 2020 census, an estimated 45,777 by 2024, and covers 545 square miles (1,410 km2) centred near 30&deg;52&prime;N 83&deg;55&prime;W. 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