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Chatsworth is a city in and the county seat of Murray County, Georgia, United States. It is part of the Dalton, Georgia, Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its population was 4,874 at the 2020 census,
History
Chatsworth was founded in 1905 as a depot on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. It was incorporated as a town in 1906 and as a city in 1923. In 1915, the seat of Murray County transferred to Chatsworth from Spring Place which was once the county seat.
Geography
Chatsworth is located in central Murray County at (34.772336, -84.778977), in northwestern Georgia. It sits at an elevation of on the west side of the valley of Holly Creek, with Fort Mountain and Cohutta Mountain rising over the valley to the east.
U.S. Routes 76 and 411 pass through the center of town on Third Avenue. US 76 leads west to Dalton and southeast to Ellijay, while US 411 leads south to Fairmount and north to Benton, Tennessee. Georgia State Routes 2 and 52 run together out of Chatsworth to the east, climbing into the Cohutta Mountains and passing through Fort Mountain State Park east of the city center.
According to the United States Census Bureau, Chatsworth has a total area of , of which , or 0.18%, are water.
|source 2 = National Weather Service (mean maxima/minima 2006–2020)
Demographics
2020 census
As of the 2020 census, Chatsworth had a population of 4,874. The median age was 36.7 years. 24.4% of residents were under the age of 18 and 16.6% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 95.1 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 90.7 males age 18 and over.
89.4% of residents lived in urban areas, while 10.6% lived in rural areas.
There were 1,775 households and 1,117 families in Chatsworth, of which 33.2% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 44.3% were married-couple households, 15.6% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 32.4% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 29.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 14.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The district has 451 full-time teachers and over 7,350 students.
Healthcare
AdventHealth Murray purchased Murray Medical Center on December 15, 2020. Advent Health Murray is the only hospital in the Chatsworth/Murray County area.
Notable people
- C. K. Fauver, former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Louisville Colonels
- Ladd McConkey, wide receiver for the Los Angeles Chargers
- Jody Ridley, NASCAR driver
- James L. Terry, US Army Lieutenant General
- Robert L. Vining Jr., former senior United States district judge
- Charles L. Carnes, former Chief Justice of Fulton County State Court