| Official Name: | Cuthbert, Georgia |
| Mapsize: | 250px |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 7.92 |
| Area Land Km2: | 7.89 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.04 |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 3.06 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 3.05 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.01 |
| Population Total: | 3143 |
| Population Density Km2: | 398.46 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 1031.85 |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
| Coordinates: | 31.7708°N -84.7936°W |
| Elevation M: | 142 |
| Elevation Ft: | 466 |
| Postal Code: | 39840 |
| Blank Info: | 13-21072[2] |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 0313227[3] |
Cuthbert is a city in and the county seat of Randolph County, Georgia, United States.[4] The population was 3,520 in 2019.
Cuthbert was founded by European Americans in 1831 as seat of the newly formed Randolph County, after Indian Removal of the historic tribes to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. John Alfred Cuthbert, who represented Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1819 to 1821, is its namesake.[5] [6] The county was developed for cotton plantations, the major commodity crop, and the rural area had a high proportion of enslaved African-American workers. Cuthbert was incorporated as a town in 1834 and as a city in 1859, serving as the trading center for the area. The Central of Georgia Railway arrived in Cuthbert in the 1850s, stimulating trade and growth, and providing a means of getting cotton and other crops to market.[7]
A few years before 2022, the city's hospital closed.[8]
Cuthbert is located at 31º46'15" North, 84º47'37" West (31.770726, -84.793517).[9] The city is located along U.S. Route 27 and U.S. Route 82. U.S. Route 27 passes east of the city leading north 57miles to Columbus and south 112miles to Tallahassee, Florida. U.S. Route 82 passes through the heart of the city leading east 45miles to Albany and west 26miles to Eufaula, Alabama. Other highways that pass through the city include Georgia State Route 266 and Georgia State Route 216.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3sqmi, all land.
| White (non-Hispanic) | 485 | 15.43% | |
| Black or African American (non-Hispanic) | 2,527 | 80.4% | |
| Native American | 7 | 0.22% | |
| Asian | 16 | 0.51% | |
| Pacific Islander | 1 | 0.03% | |
| Other/Mixed | 46 | 1.46% | |
| Hispanic or Latino | 61 | 1.94% |
Cuthbert is home to Andrew College (formerly Andrew Female College), a two-year private liberal arts college. The Fletcher Henderson Museum is being established in Cuthbert in honor of the 20th-century jazz musician and orchestra arranger.
The city has notable sites such as a Confederate Army cemetery, historical houses built in the 1800s, and the Fletcher Henderson home. In 2007 an announcement was made of a museum to be dedicated to late resident Lena Baker and issues of racial justice. Baker was an African-American maid who was convicted of capital murder in 1945 in the death of a white man; she was the only woman in Georgia to be executed by electric chair. She had claimed self-defense, and in 2005 the state posthumously pardoned her.[11] She was the subject of a 2001 biography and a 2008 feature film of the same name, The Lena Baker Story. (It was later retitled Hope and Redemption: The Lena Baker Story.)
The Randolph County School District holds grades pre-school to grade twelve, and consists of two elementary, middle, and high schools.[12] The district has 88 full-time teachers and more than 1,530 students.[13]