Coweta County is a county in the West Central region of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is part of Metro Atlanta. As of the 2020 census, the population was 146,158. The county seat is Newnan.
Coweta County is included in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell metropolitan statistical area.
History
The land for Lee, Muscogee, Troup, Coweta and Carroll counties was ceded by the Creek people in the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs. The counties' boundaries were created by the Georgia General Assembly on June 9, 1826, but they were not named until December 14, 1826. Coweta County was named for the Koweta Indians (a sub-group of the Creek people), who had several towns in and around the present-day county.
In 1882, Aleck Brown, an African-American man accused of raping a white woman, was lynched. In 1899, Sam Hose, an African-American man accused of killing his boss, was tortured and burned alive by a lynch mob of approximately 2,000 citizens of Coweta County.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (1.1%) is water. The county is located in the Piedmont region of the state.
The eastern half of Coweta County, from Palmetto southwest to Newnan, then south to Luthersville, is in the Upper Flint River sub-basin of the ACF River Basin (Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin). The western half is in the Middle Chattahoochee River-Lake Harding sub-basin of the same ACF River Basin.
Major highways
- 20px Interstate 85
- 20px<br />20px U.S. Route 27 Alternate
- 20px U.S. Route 29
- 20px State Route 14
- 20px State Route 16
- 20px State Route 34
- 20px State Route 34 Bypass
- 20px State Route 41
- 20px State Route 54
- 20px State Route 70
- 20px State Route 74
- 20px State Route 85
- 20px State Route 154
- 20px State Route 403
Adjacent counties
- Fulton County – northeast
- Fayette County – east
- Spalding County – East/southeast
- Meriwether County – south
- Troup County – southwest
- Heard County – west
- Carroll County – northwest
Communities
Cities
- Chattahoochee Hills (partly in Fulton County)
- Grantville
- Newnan
- Palmetto (partly in Fulton County)
- Senoia
Towns
- Haralson
- Moreland
- Sharpsburg
- Turin
Census-designated place
- East Newnan
Unincorporated communities
- Corinth (partly in Heard County)
- Raymond
- Roscoe
- Sargent
- Thomas Crossroads
Planned town
In the federal government's National Urban Policy and New Community Development Act of 1970, funding was provided for thirteen "new towns" or planned cities throughout the country. One 7,400-acre location was set to be developed in Coweta County and was known as Shenandoah. The project was launched in the early 1970s and was foreclosed on in 1981, when it included 170 families and 108 residential lots.