Official Name: | Buckhead, Georgia |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Mapsize: | 250px |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Georgia |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Morgan |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 2.11 |
Area Land Km2: | 2.09 |
Area Water Km2: | 0.02 |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 0.81 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 0.81 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.01 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 194 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 242.20 |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Coordinates: | 33.5681°N -83.3625°W |
Elevation M: | 190 |
Elevation Ft: | 626 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 30625 |
Area Code: | 706 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 13-11672[3] |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 0354900[4] |
Buckhead is a town in Morgan County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town had a population of 194.[2]
The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Buckhead as a town in 1908.[5] According to tradition, Buckhead was named from a pioneer incident when hunters shot a deer and publicly mounted the buck's head onto a tree.[6]
Buckhead is located in southeastern Morgan County at (33.568012, -83.362443).[7] It is 7miles east-southeast of Madison, the county seat. Interstate 20 passes south of the town, with access from Exit 121 (Seven Islands Road). Via I-20, Buckhead is east of Atlanta and west of Augusta.
According to the United States Census Bureau, Buckhead has a total area of 0.8sqmi, of which 0.008sqmi, or 0.99%, are water.[1] The town is drained to the north by tributaries of the Apalachee River and to the south by tributaries of Sugar Creek, both of which flow southeast to the Oconee River.
At the 2000 census there were 205 people, 68 households, and 55 families in the town. By 2020, its population was 194.