3 of Georgetown’s places are on the National Register
More historic than 20% of U.S. towns · #197 of 263 in Georgia. What drives it
Its Register listings are the Wild Heron, the St. Bartholomew's Church and the New Ogeechee Missionary Baptist Church. Most of Georgetown was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1997. Its Register listings are the Wild Heron, the St. Bartholomew's Church and the New Ogeechee Missionary Baptist Church. Below: maps from 1944 on and the census since 1980.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Georgetown is more historic than 20% of U.S. towns, #197 of 263 in Georgia. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Georgetown’s overall grade.
Georgia towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Georgia town has 10.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Georgetown’s 3.6 sits near the middle of its state (42% of Georgia towns have fewer) while its 4 historic buildings outnumber those of 68% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on two of the three inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. The pre-1940 share (±0.4 points) is firm at this size.
Founding year: our sources. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Georgetown’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The story so far
Georgetown, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Georgetown yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Georgetown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Chatham County, Georgia, United States. The population was 11,916 at the 2020 census. Georgetown lies across the Little Ogeechee River (and city limits) from Savannah, Georgia, and is a suburban "bedroom community" of Savannah, where most of its adult residents work. It is part of the Savannah Metropolitan Statistical Area. Georgetown was constructed mostly in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but new subdivisions have been built recently. Shopping facilities are now more plentiful and continue to be added. Two schools in Georgetown are units of the Savannah-Chatham public school system: Georgetown Elementary and S…
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 11,823 in 2010, 11,916 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Georgetown, 1873 to 1944
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Georgetown is more historic than 20% of U.S. towns, #197 of 263 in Georgia. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Georgetown?
Three places: the Wild Heron (listed 1977), the St. Bartholomew's Church (1982) and the New Ogeechee Missionary Baptist Church (2001).
How old are the homes in Georgetown?
0.0% of Georgetown’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 3.8% for a Georgia town; the median home was built in 1997.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikimedia Commons (2), the National Register of Historic Places (3), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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