Cartersville, Georgia | |
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 Cartersville City Hall | |
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 Location inBartow County,Georgia | |
  Cartersville Location of Cartersville inMetro Atlanta | |
| Coordinates:34°11′N84°48′W / 34.183°N 84.800°W /34.183; -84.800 | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Georgia |
| County | Bartow |
| Incorporated | 1850 |
| Named after | Farish Carter[1][2] |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Matt Santini |
| Area | |
• Total | 28.74 sq mi (74.44 km2) |
| • Land | 28.62 sq mi (74.12 km2) |
| • Water | 0.12 sq mi (0.32 km2) |
| Elevation | 787 ft (240 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 23,187 |
| • Density | 810.2/sq mi (312.82/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (Eastern Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (Eastern Daylight Time) |
| ZIP Codes | 30120, 30121 |
| Area codes | |
| FIPS code | 13-13688[4] |
| GNIS feature ID | 0355017[5] |
| Website | cartersvillega.gov |
Cartersville is a city in and thecounty seat ofBartow County,Georgia, United States;[6] it is located within the northwest edge of theAtlanta metropolitan area. As of the2020 census, the city had a population of 23,187.
Cartersville, originally known as Birmingham, was founded byEnglish-Americans in 1832.[7] The town was incorporated as Cartersville in 1854.[7] The present name is for Col. Farish Carter of Milledgeville, the owner of a large plantation.[8][9] Cartersville was the long-time home ofAmos Akerman, U.S. Attorney General under PresidentUlysses S. Grant; in that office Akerman spearheaded the federal prosecution of members of theKu Klux Klan and was one of the most important public servants of the Reconstruction era.[10]
Cartersville was designated the seat of Bartow County in 1867 following the destruction ofCassville bySherman's March to the Sea in theAmerican Civil War. Cartersville was incorporated as a city in 1872.[11]
On February 26, 1916, a mob of fifty men and boys forcibly removed Jesse McCorkle, a Black man who had been arrested just the night before for allegedly assaulting a woman, from the jail. They lynched him by hanging him from a tree in front of city hall and then riddled his body with bullets.[12][13]
Cartersville is located in south-central Bartow County, 42 miles (68 km) northwest of downtownAtlanta and 76 miles (122 km) southeast ofChattanooga, Tennessee.
TheEtowah River flows through a broad valley south of the downtown, leading west toRome, where it forms theCoosa River, a tributary of theAlabama River. The city limits extend eastward, upriver, as far as Allatoona Dam, which formsLake Allatoona, a large U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir.Red Top Mountain State Park sits on a peninsula in the lake, just outside the city limits.Nancy Creek also flows in the vicinity. The highest point in the city is 1,562 feet (476 m) at the summit ofPine Mountain.[14]
According to theU.S. Census Bureau, Cartersville has a total area of 29.3 square miles (75.9 km2), of which 29.2 square miles (75.5 km2) is land and 0.15 square miles (0.4 km2), or 0.59%, is water.[15]
Interstate 75, the major north–south route through the area, passes through the eastern edge of the city, with access from five exits: Exit 285 just south of the city limits inEmerson, Exit 288 (East Main Street) closest to downtown, and exits 290, 293, and 296 along the city's northern outskirts.U.S. Highway 41, which is concurrent withState Route 3, is an older, parallel highway to Interstate 75 that goes through the eastern edge of downtown, leading north toCalhoun andDalton and south toMarietta.U.S. Highway 411 passes through the northern edge of the city, leading west toRome and north toChatsworth.State Route 20 runs west to Rome concurrent with U.S. Highway 411 and runs east toCanton.State Route 61 runs north to White concurrent with U.S. Highway 411 and runs south toDallas, Georgia.State Route 113 runs southwesterly toRockmart.State Route 293 runs west-northwest toKingston.
Cartersville Airport is a public use airport located on the west side of Cartersville on State Route 61. It is the home base ofPhoenix Air.
The following communities border the city:
| Climate data for Cartersville, Georgia (Cartersville Airport), 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1891–2019 | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °F (°C) | 79 (26) | 83 (28) | 88 (31) | 93 (34) | 100 (38) | 106 (41) | 108 (42) | 108 (42) | 106 (41) | 100 (38) | 87 (31) | 82 (28) | 108 (42) |
| Mean maximum °F (°C) | 68.2 (20.1) | 73.0 (22.8) | 80.9 (27.2) | 85.7 (29.8) | 89.1 (31.7) | 93.9 (34.4) | 96.2 (35.7) | 95.5 (35.3) | 92.0 (33.3) | 84.7 (29.3) | 77.1 (25.1) | 69.0 (20.6) | 97.5 (36.4) |
| Mean daily maximum °F (°C) | 52.2 (11.2) | 56.8 (13.8) | 64.9 (18.3) | 73.4 (23.0) | 80.7 (27.1) | 86.9 (30.5) | 89.6 (32.0) | 89.1 (31.7) | 84.2 (29.0) | 74.0 (23.3) | 62.9 (17.2) | 54.5 (12.5) | 72.4 (22.5) |
| Daily mean °F (°C) | 41.8 (5.4) | 45.5 (7.5) | 52.5 (11.4) | 60.2 (15.7) | 68.3 (20.2) | 75.6 (24.2) | 78.8 (26.0) | 78.1 (25.6) | 72.5 (22.5) | 61.6 (16.4) | 50.8 (10.4) | 44.3 (6.8) | 60.8 (16.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °F (°C) | 31.4 (−0.3) | 34.3 (1.3) | 40.2 (4.6) | 47.0 (8.3) | 56.0 (13.3) | 64.2 (17.9) | 68.0 (20.0) | 67.2 (19.6) | 60.7 (15.9) | 49.1 (9.5) | 38.7 (3.7) | 34.0 (1.1) | 49.2 (9.6) |
| Mean minimum °F (°C) | 12.7 (−10.7) | 17.0 (−8.3) | 23.8 (−4.6) | 30.6 (−0.8) | 41.1 (5.1) | 52.5 (11.4) | 60.1 (15.6) | 59.5 (15.3) | 46.0 (7.8) | 32.7 (0.4) | 25.6 (−3.6) | 16.0 (−8.9) | 9.3 (−12.6) |
| Record low °F (°C) | −9 (−23) | −6 (−21) | 8 (−13) | 22 (−6) | 31 (−1) | 40 (4) | 49 (9) | 48 (9) | 30 (−1) | 23 (−5) | 4 (−16) | −3 (−19) | −9 (−23) |
| Averageprecipitation inches (mm) | 4.29 (109) | 4.69 (119) | 4.72 (120) | 4.15 (105) | 3.67 (93) | 3.79 (96) | 3.88 (99) | 3.44 (87) | 3.63 (92) | 3.25 (83) | 4.06 (103) | 4.49 (114) | 48.06 (1,220) |
| Average snowfall inches (cm) | 0.4 (1.0) | 0.1 (0.25) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.1 (0.25) | 0.6 (1.5) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.01 in) | 10.8 | 11.9 | 11.2 | 10.3 | 11.3 | 12.4 | 14.2 | 10.7 | 9.4 | 9.2 | 9.1 | 10.8 | 131.3 |
| Average snowy days(≥ 0.1 in) | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Source 1: NOAA (snow/snow days 1981–2010)[16][17] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: National Weather Service (mean maxima/minima 1981–2010)[18] | |||||||||||||
| Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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| 1870 | 2,232 | — | |
| 1880 | 2,037 | −8.7% | |
| 1890 | 3,171 | 55.7% | |
| 1900 | 3,135 | −1.1% | |
| 1910 | 4,067 | 29.7% | |
| 1920 | 4,350 | 7.0% | |
| 1930 | 5,250 | 20.7% | |
| 1940 | 6,141 | 17.0% | |
| 1950 | 7,270 | 18.4% | |
| 1960 | 8,668 | 19.2% | |
| 1970 | 10,138 | 17.0% | |
| 1980 | 9,247 | −8.8% | |
| 1990 | 12,035 | 30.2% | |
| 2000 | 15,925 | 32.3% | |
| 2010 | 19,731 | 23.9% | |
| 2020 | 23,187 | 17.5% | |
| U.S. Decennial Census[19] 1850-1870[20] 1870-1880[21] 1890-1910[22] 1920-1930[23] 1940[24] 1950[25] 1960[26] 1970[27] 1980[28] 1990[29] 2000[30] 2010[31] 2020[32] | |||
Cartersville first appeared as a town in the1870 United States census.[20] The city absorbed the census-delineated neighboring unincorporated community ofAtco prior to the1960 U.S. census.[25][26]
| Race / ethnicity(NH = Non-Hispanic) | Pop. 2000[33] | Pop. 2010[31] | Pop. 2020[32] | % 2000 | % 2010 | 2020 |
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| White alone (NH) | 11,758 | 13,003 | 14,608 | 73.83% | 65.90% | 63.00% |
| Black or African American alone (NH) | 2,682 | 3,592 | 4,144 | 16.84% | 18.20% | 17.87% |
| Native American orAlaska Native alone (NH) | 37 | 45 | 50 | 0.23% | 0.23% | 0.22% |
| Asian alone (NH) | 127 | 196 | 346 | 0.80% | 0.99% | 1.49% |
| Pacific Islander alone (NH) | 7 | 42 | 11 | 0.04% | 0.21% | 0.05% |
| Some other race alone (NH) | 15 | 19 | 88 | 0.09% | 0.10% | 0.38% |
| Mixed race or multi-racial (NH) | 139 | 329 | 889 | 0.87% | 1.67% | 3.83% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1,160 | 2,505 | 3,051 | 7.28% | 12.70% | 13.16% |
| Total | 15,925 | 19,731 | 23,187 | 100.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% |
As of the2020 United States census, there were 23,187 people, 7,835 households, and 5,285 families residing in the city.
As of thecensus[4] of 2010, there were 19,010 people, 5,870 households, and 4,132 families residing in the city. The population of Cartersville is growing significantly. The population density was 680.7 inhabitants per square mile (262.8/km2). There were 6,130 housing units at an average density of 262.0 per square mile (101.2/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 63.93%White, 29.64%African American, 0.82%Asian, 0.28%Native American, 0.04%Pacific Islander, 3.76% fromother races, and 1.53% from two or more races.Hispanic orLatino people of any race were 7.28% of the population.
There were 5,870 households, out of which 33.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.6% weremarried couples living together, 13.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.6% were non-families. 25.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.59 and the average family size was 3.10.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 25.9% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 30.2% from 25 to 44, 20.8% from 45 to 64, and 14.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.1 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $41,162, and the median income for a family was $48,219. Males had a median income of $35,092 versus $25,761 for females. Theper capita income for the city was $19,977. About 8.9% of families and 11.4% of the population were below thepoverty line, including 13.7% of those under age 18 and 15.4% of those age 65 or over.
The schools that comprise theCartersville City School District are:
There is a privateMontessori school:
Cartersville also has a college campus:
Manufacturing, tourism, and services play a part in the economy of the city. The city's employers include:
The city is home to Piedmont Cartersville Medical Center and the Hope Center, making it a minor healthcare hub for the surrounding area.[citation needed]
In 2017, the Cartersville Police Department arrested 65 people at a house party because of a suspicion that there was an ounce of marijuana at the party. The individuals arrested in this incident have been referred to as "The Cartersville 70" by the community. Many of these individuals remained in holding cells for several consecutive days. Some individuals detained during this incident have reported being denied access to their prescription medications while incarcerated. Several others lost their jobs. In 2022, a federal court awarded 45 of the arrested individuals a $900,000 settlement due to a violation of their constitutional rights.[41]
On September 8, 2022, Deputy Police Chief Jason DiPrima resigned after being arrested in a prostitute police-sting operation.[42][43]
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