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Geographic Center of Georgia

One and one tenth mile south ~ southeast from this marker is the geographic center of the state. The center is defined as the balance point of a plane or thin sheet of a uniform thickness in the...

One and one tenth mile south ~ southeast from this marker is the geographic center of the state. The center is defined as the balance point of a plane or thin sheet of a uniform thickness in the shape of the area.

The central point is one ~ quarter mile south ~ southeast of the Junction of Turvin and Savage Creeks in Twiggs County and about seventeen and one ~ half miles southeast of Macon. The Geologic Survey Branch of the Department of Natural Resources determined the central point to be at latitude 32´ 38´ 46" N., longtitude 83´ 25´ 54" W.

GHM 143-11 DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES

Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com.

Original page, with additional info, here.

Photo credit: David Seibert.

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