Official Name: | Palmetto, Georgia |
Settlement Type: | City |
Mapsize: | 250px |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Georgia |
Subdivision Type2: | Counties |
Subdivision Name2: | Fulton, Coweta |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 31.19 |
Area Land Km2: | 30.71 |
Area Water Km2: | 0.49 |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 12.04 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 11.86 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.19 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Total: | 5071 |
Population Density Km2: | 165.14 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 427.72 |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Coordinates: | 33.5311°N -84.6675°W |
Elevation Ft: | 1020 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 30268 |
Area Code: | 770 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 13-58884[2] |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 2404466 |
Palmetto is a city located mostly in Fulton County (originally Campbell County) and now partly in Coweta County in the U.S. state of Georgia. The population was 5,071 at the 2020 census.The current mayor is J. Clark Boddie.
The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Palmetto as a town in 1854.[3] The community was named after the Palmetto Regiment of the Mexican–American War.[4]
White (non-Hispanic) | 1,203 | 23.72% | |
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) | 2,949 | 58.15% | |
Native American | 9 | 0.18% | |
Asian | 43 | 0.85% | |
Pacific Islander | 1 | 0.02% | |
Other/Mixed | 205 | 4.04% | |
Hispanic or Latino | 661 | 13.03% |