关于桃县, Georgia

Welcome to the official website for the government of 桃县, Georgia. Located about 90 minutes South of Atlanta, 桃县 affords a unique and desirable quality of life with a stable government, 美丽的天气, good schools and good people to call neighbors. 桃县 offers an inviting rural setting found only in the deep South, but is only minutes away from Macon and Warner Robins. 欢迎来到桃县. We put the Peach in Georgia!

  • 桃县 was created in 1924 from Houston and Macon counties by the state legislature.
  • 桃县 was the last county to be created.
  • Georgia's youngest county took its name from the peaches grown here and has long been known as the "Peach Capital of the World".
  • 桃县 is home to a 27,413 residents according to the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget.
  • 桃县人口151人.1平方英里乘以0.4 square miles of water area.
  • Average low temperature in 桃县 is 51.9°F and the average daily high is 75.5°F. January is typically the coldest month with average lows of 34.5°F and July is the hottest with average highs of 91.8°F.
  • The sun shines an average of 65.9% of the time in 桃县.
  • Annual precipitation averages 44.6 inches and annual snowfall averages 1.2英寸.
  • The largest employer, Blue Bird Corporation, was founded in Fort Valley in 1927 by A.L. Luce and some 1,600 residents built the world famous buses at the main plant. Blue Bird has grown to be the world's largest producer of school buses.
  • 的发展 埃尔伯塔 peach in 1870 and excellent railroad connections taking the fresh fruit great distances combined to make 桃县 the peach capital of the world in the early 1900s.
  • Median household income (in 2016 dollars), 2012-2016 was $41,128.
  • 桃县 employers had a total annual payroll of $226.800万2015.
  • Of all the counties in the nation, 桃县 ranks No. 6 in production of pecans; 7 in production of peaches.
  • Originally chartered in 1895, Fort Valley State University now has about 2,679 students and is the county's second largest employer.
  • Fort Valley State University has the state's second-largest campus in terms of land, 近1,400英亩.
  • Fort Valley hosted Peach Blossom Festivals in the 1920s which drew an estimated 40,000 people to the town with 3,000居民. The event was compared to Mardi Gras and the Rose Festival and was even featured in National Geographic. It finally became too large for the community to stage and ended in 1926.
  • The festival was resurrected in 1986 as the 乔治亚桃节 and draws thousands of visitors each year. The highlight is the world's largest peach cobbler!
  • 桃县 is home to national headquarters of the 美国茶花协会, which houses acres of camellias and a museum with more than 300 porcelain birds at Massee Lane.
  • The longest serving Commissioner was J.D. (唐尼)然. Mr. Doles was one of the first three Commissioners elected in 1965. He served 桃县 for 20 years. Before the first class of Commissioners took office in 1965, 桃县 was governed by an Ordinary.
  • The second longest serving Commissioner was Dr. Ira希克斯, Jr. Dr. 希克斯于1989年上任.
  • 桃县 had a hand in the decision to paint school buses yellow. Blue Bird engineers helped develop the color "School Bus Yellow" in 1939, which is still in use today.
  • The 桃县 Trojans are one of the most successful AAA programs in Georgia. The Trojans have won three State Titles and 16 Region Titles since the school was created in 1970 with the merger of Fort Valley High School and H.A. 亨特高中