Saffold is an
unincorporated community in
Early County, Georgia
Early County is a county located on the southwest border of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 11,008. The county seat is Blakely, where the Early County Courthouse is located. Created on December 15, 1818, i ...
, United States. Its western boundary is the
Chattahoochee River
The Chattahoochee River forms the southern half of the Alabama and Georgia border, as well as a portion of the Florida - Georgia border. It is a tributary of the Apalachicola River, a relatively short river formed by the confluence of the Chatta ...
also bordering
Gordon, Alabama
Gordon is a town in Houston County, Alabama, United States. It was incorporated in February 1872. It is part of the Dothan, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2010 census the population was 332, down from 408 in 2000.
Geography
Gordon ...
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U.S. Route 84 and
SR 370 pass through the community. It is located 20 miles south of
Blakely, 21 miles southeast of
Dothan, Alabama, five miles south of the
Georgia-Pacific Cedar Springs Operations
Georgia-Pacific LLC is an American pulp and paper company based in Atlanta, Georgia, and is one of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of tissue, pulp, paper, toilet and paper towel dispensers, packaging, building products and rel ...
, and two miles northwest of
Jakin.
History
The community has the name of a local family of early settlers.
References
Unincorporated communities in Georgia (U.S. state)
Unincorporated communities in Early County, Georgia
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