Everett, Georgia is a small, rural

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) in

Glynn County, Georgia Glynn County is located in the Southeast Georgia, southeastern part of the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 84,499. The county seat is Brunswick, Georgia, Brunswic ...

, United States (not to be confused with another Everett located in Thomas County). It first appeared as a CDP in the 2020 Census with a population of 158.

History

Robert Hammond Everett (1850-1935) of Brunswick, Georgia, once owned large tracts of timber in the vicinity and operated a lumber and cypress shingle mill near the railroad junction, which was named for him. It was originally chartered as Everett City, Georgia in 1894, but lost its municipality status about ten years later, having failed to grow as hoped. It was once the location of a bustling railroad junction shared by the Southern Railway (SOU) and the

Seaboard Air Line Railroad The Seaboard Air Line Railroad , known colloquially as the Seaboard Railroad during its time, was an American railroad that existed from April 14, 1900, until July 1, 1967, when it merged with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, its longtime ri ...

(SAL), with a yard tower, freight house, passenger depot, stock yard, and about a half-dozen 'section houses' occupied by employees of these carriers. By the end of the 1960s, all of these facilities had been removed, and by the end of the 1970s only the Southern Railway (now the

Norfolk Southern Railway The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States. Headquartered in Atlanta, the company was formed in 1982 with the merger of the Norfolk and Western Railway and Southern Railway. The comp ...

, NS) retained tracks through the community. The Everett lumber mill operations closed before World War II.

Demographics

Everett was first listed as a

census designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

in the 2020 U.S. Census.

Education

Glynn County's public schools are operated by

Glynn County School System The Glynn County School District is a public school district in Glynn County, Georgia, Glynn County, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States, based in Brunswick, Georgia, Brunswick. It serves the communities of Brunswick, Country Club Est ...

. Zoned schools include: * Sterling Elementary School (SES) * Jane Macon Middle School (JMS) * Brunswick High School (BHS)High School Zones Map
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. Retrieved on March 13, 2019.

References

Census-designated places in Glynn County, Georgia Unincorporated communities in Glynn County, Georgia {{GlynnCountyGA-geo-stub