Troup County, Georgia

Troup County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 67,044. The county seat is LaGrange.

Troup County comprises the LaGrange, GA Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Atlanta-Athens-Clarke County-Sandy Springs, GA Combined 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.

The county is named for George Troup, thirty-fourth governor of Georgia, U.S. representative, and senator.

The official historian of Troup County is noted author Forrest Clark Johnson, III.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 446 square miles (1,160 km²), of which 414 square miles (1,070 km²) is land and 32 square miles (83 km²) (7.2%) is water.

The entirety of Troup County is located in the Middle Chattahoochee River-Lake Harding sub-basin of the ACF River Basin (Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin).