Evans is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Columbia County, Georgia, United States. It is a suburb of Augusta and is part of the Augusta metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, Evans had a population of 34,536.
Evans is the de facto county seat of Columbia County, although Appling still holds the de jure designation.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 4.87%, is water.
Origin of the name
Evans has no relationship to Evans County, Georgia, which is located about 110 miles south of Columbia County and the Evans community. Evans County was named for General Clement A. Evans, but according to an interview with the general's son, Lawton B. Evans, published in the Augusta Chronicle, the community of Evans was not named for his father but for an unrelated family with the same last name.