Claxton, Georgia Claxton, Georgia The town/city hall in Claxton The town/city hall in Claxton Location in Evans County and the state of Georgia Location in Evans County and the state of Georgia Claxton is a town/city in Evans County, Georgia, United States.
The town/city is the governmental center of county of Evans County. 6 Claxton Fruit Cake 8 Claxton meteorite The petition to incorporate the town of Claxton was allowed by Tattnall Superior Court in April 1894.
Hendricks. In May 1890 there were only a couple of dwellings scattered around the region that is Claxton.
Wood, declined to approve the name, because a postal service in the state was already operating under that name in Upson County. Two other names were then submitted, "Jenny" and "Claxton".
Postal officials agreed to Claxton, and the postal service opened in 1890. Some small-town historians contend that the name of a prominent actress, Kate Claxton, was the source, while the rest believe it was with respect to Philander Priestly Claxton, a noted educator of the time. Shortly after the Claxton postal service opened, D.C.
Newton, one of the partners in a naval stores company, laid out on a sheet of brown wrapping paper what became the initial map of Claxton.
"Bobby" Tippins, president of Tippins Bank and Trust Company and descendant of the family that established the bank in Claxton, who died in the early 2000s.
Claxton is positioned at the center of Evans County at 32 9 39 N 81 54 31 W (32.160932, -81.908674). It is bordered to the west by the town/city of Hagan.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Claxton has a total region of 1.7 square miles (4.5 km2), of which 0.02 square miles (0.04 km2), or 0.84%, is water. The town/city is in the coastal plain region of Georgia.
Claxton has a humid subtropical climate as stated to the Koppen classification.
Climate data for Claxton, Georgia As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 2,746 citizens residing in the city.
At the 2000 United States Census, there were 2,276 citizens residing in the city.
Claxton is governed by a mayor and town/city council.
The mayor is propel at large, while the seven member council is propel by district. Other officials in the town/city include the town/city manager, town/city attorney, police chief, street superintendent, enhance works director, personnel director, finance officer, purchasing agent, code enforcement, fire chief, municipal court judge, municipal court clerk, zoning administrator, gas superintendent and the water superintendent. Public education in Claxton is supervised by the Evans County School District.
All schools have been fully accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools as well as the Georgia Accrediting Commission. The enhance schools in Claxton are: Claxton Elementary School; Claxton Middle School; and Claxton High School.
Claxton Fruit Cake The water fortress for Claxton, Georgia, celebrating its fruitcake manufacture.
The town/city is known as the home of the Claxton Fruit Cake which is exported from the world-famous Claxton Bakery and The Georgia Fruitcake Company.
Claxton and Evans County are well served by locally owned and directed radio and newspaper.
WCLA was known for years as the World's Only Drive-In Radio Station, as the station was based in the large screen of Claxton's Tos Drive-In Theatre.
The weekly Claxton Enterprise has been continually presented since 1912, before to the creation of Evans County.
WLFH-FM (88.9) and WMCD-FM (107.3), while legally licensed to Claxton by the Federal Communications Commission, neither station has offices or studios in Evans County.
Claxton meteorite Further information: Claxton meteorite On December 10, 1984, a meteorite fell in Claxton and hit a mailbox. The mailbox sold for $83,000 because it is said that it is the only meteorite to have hit a mailbox. The meteorite is also classified as an L6 meteorite.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Claxton city, Georgia.
A History of Evans County, Georgia.
"City of Claxton".
"Average Weather for Claxton, Georgia".
"Average Weather for Claxton, GA Temperature and Precipitation".
"Government: Claxton Evans County Chamber of Commerce".
"Georgia Municipal Association".
"The Claxton Mailbox: The Only Mailbox in the World Hit by a Meteorite!".
Claxton Enterprise, small-town journal Claxton Fruit Cake Company Claxton First United Methodist Church historical marker Municipalities and communities of Evans County, Georgia, United States
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