North Georgia mountains

Information about North Georgia mountains

Enlarge picture
Map showing relationship of North Georgia mountains to the Blue Ridge Mountain and the Appalachian mountain system
Enlarge picture
Map of the region
The Georgia Mountains Region or North Georgia mountains is an area that starts in the northeast corner of Georgia, United States, and spreads in a westerly direction. The mountains in this region are in the Blue Ridge mountain chain that ends in Georgia. At over 1 billion years of age, the Blue Ridge mountains are the oldest mountains in the United States and sometimes falsely thought to be the oldest mountains in the world (in fact they are only about one third of the age of South Africa's Barberton greenstone belt. At 3.6 billion years of age the Barberton greenstone belt are generally accepted to be the oldest mountains on Earth). The mountains in this region are also a part of the vast system of North American mountains known as the Appalachian Mountains that spans most of the United States longitudally along the eastern areas of the nation and terminates in Alabama.

The region is known for its ruggedness and scenic beauty. The Cherokee who lived in these mountains called them Sah-ka-na'-ga - "The Great Blue Hills of God." Large portions of the North Georgia mountains are included in the more than 750,000 acres that comprises the Chattahoochee National Forest.

Geography

The Georgia Mountains Region contains the Georgia counties of:
  • Banks
  • Dawson
  • Elbert
  • Franklin
  • Forsyth
  • Hall
  • Hart
  • Habersham
  • Lumpkin
  • Rabun
  • Stephens
  • Union
  • Towns
  • White
Cities in the North Georgia Mountains region include Clayton, Dahlonega, Gainesville, and Toccoa in the northern section. Elberton, Hartwell and Lavonia are located farther south.

See also

 •  • [ e]
State of Georgia
Atlanta (capital)
Geology | History | Governors | People | Music | Politics | Geography | Demographics | Economy | Sports
Regions Atlantic Coastal Plain | Blue Ridge | Colonial Coast | Cumberland Plateau | The Golden Isles | Historic South | Inland Empire | Metro Atlanta | Middle Georgia | North Georgia Mountains | Piedmont | Ridge and Valley | Sea Islands | Southern Rivers | Tennessee Valley | Wiregrass Region
Largest cities Albany | Atlanta | Athens-Clarke County | Augusta | Columbus | Johns Creek | Macon | Marietta | Roswell | Sandy Springs | Savannah | Warner Robins
Counties Appling | Atkinson | Bacon | Baker | Baldwin | Banks | Barrow | Bartow | Ben Hill | Berrien | Bibb | Bleckley | Brantley | Brooks | Bryan | Bulloch | Burke | Butts | Calhoun | Camden | Candler | Carroll | Catoosa | Charlton | Chatham | Chattahoochee | Chattooga | Cherokee | Clarke | Clay | Clayton | Clinch | Cobb | Coffee | Colquitt | Columbia | Cook | Coweta | Crawford | Crisp | Dade | Dawson | Decatur | DeKalb | Dodge | Dooly | Dougherty | Douglas | Early | Echols | Effingham | Elbert | Emanuel | Evans | Fannin | Fayette | Floyd | Forsyth | Franklin | Fulton | Gilmer | Glascock | Glynn | Gordon | Grady | Greene | Gwinnett | Habersham | Hall | Hancock | Haralson | Harris | Hart | Heard | Henry | Houston | Irwin | Jackson | Jasper | Jeff Davis | Jefferson | Jenkins | Johnson | Jones | Lamar | Lanier | Laurens | Lee | Liberty | Lincoln | Long | Lowndes | Lumpkin | Macon | Madison | Marion | McDuffie | McIntosh | Meriwether | Miller | Mitchell | Monroe | Montgomery | Morgan | Murray | Muscogee | Newton | Oconee | Oglethorpe | Paulding | Peach | Pickens | Pierce | Pike | Polk | Pulaski | Putnam | Quitman | Rabun | Randolph | Richmond | Rockdale | Schley | Screven | Seminole | Spalding | Stephens | Stewart | Sumter | Talbot | Taliaferro | Tattnall | Taylor | Telfair | Terrell | Thomas | Tift | Toombs | Towns | Treutlen | Troup | Turner | Twiggs | Union | Upson | Walker | Walton | Ware | Warren | Washington | Wayne | Webster | Wheeler | White | Whitfield | Wilcox | Wilkes | Wilkinson | Worth | Campbell | Milton
State of Georgia

Flag of Georgia Seal of Georgia
Nickname(s): Peach State, Empire State of the South
Motto(s): Wisdom, Justice, and Moderation

Official language(s) English

Capital Atlanta

..... Click the link for more information.
Motto
"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
Anthem
..... Click the link for more information.
Blue Ridge Mountains



Country | United States
States | Georgia,North Carolina,Tennessee,Virginia,Maryland,Pennsylvania

Part of Appalachian Mountains
..... Click the link for more information.

..... Click the link for more information.
Barberton is the name of different towns, including:
  • Barberton, Ohio, United States
  • Barberton, Mpumalanga, South Africa
  • Barberton, Washington, United States


..... Click the link for more information.
Greenstone belts are zones of variably metamorphosed mafic to ultramafic volcanic sequences with associated sedimentary rocks that occur within Archaean and Proterozoic cratons between granite and gneiss bodies.
..... Click the link for more information.
Barberton is the name of different towns, including:
  • Barberton, Ohio, United States
  • Barberton, Mpumalanga, South Africa
  • Barberton, Washington, United States


..... Click the link for more information.
Greenstone belts are zones of variably metamorphosed mafic to ultramafic volcanic sequences with associated sedimentary rocks that occur within Archaean and Proterozoic cratons between granite and gneiss bodies.
..... Click the link for more information.


North America is a continent [1] in the Earth's northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. It is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the southeast by the Caribbean Sea, and on the south and west
..... Click the link for more information.
The Appalachian Mountains

Appalachians in North Carolina


Countries | United States,Canada
Regions |
..... Click the link for more information.
Motto
"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
Anthem
..... Click the link for more information.
Cherokee ( ah-ni-yv-wi-ya in the Cherokee language) are a people from North America, who at the time of European contact in the 1600s, inhabited what is now the Eastern and Southeastern United States. Most were forcibly moved westward to the Ozark Plateau.
..... Click the link for more information.
The Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest in northern Georgia is actually two U.S. National Forests, the Oconee National Forest and Chattahoochee National Forest, linked together.
..... Click the link for more information.
Clayton, Georgia
Location in Rabun County and the state of Georgia
Coordinates:
Country United States
State Georgia
County Rabun
Area
 - City  3.
..... Click the link for more information.
Dahlonega, Georgia, USA
Nickname: Azalea City
Location in Lumpkin County and the state of Georgia
Coordinates:
Country United States
State Georgia
..... Click the link for more information.
Gainesville, Georgia, USA
Nickname: "Queen City of the Mountains" & "Poultry Capital of the World"
Location in Hall County and the state of Georgia
Coordinates:
Country
..... Click the link for more information.
Toccoa, Georgia
Location in Stephens County and the state of Georgia
Coordinates:
Country United States
State Georgia
County Stephens
Area
 - City  8.
..... Click the link for more information.
Elberton, Georgia
A home along Elberton's Heard Street.

Seal
Nickname: Granite Capital of the World
Location in Elbert County and the state of Georgia
Coordinates:
..... Click the link for more information.
Hartwell, Georgia
Location in Hart County and the state of Georgia
Coordinates:
Country United States
State Georgia
County Hart
Area
 - City  4.
..... Click the link for more information.
Lavonia, Georgia
Location in Franklin County and the state of Georgia
Coordinates:
Country United States
State Georgia
County Franklin
Area
..... Click the link for more information.
Squidbillies is an animated television series produced by Williams Street Studios for the Adult Swim programming block of Cartoon Network. The animation is done by Radical Axis, with background design by Ben Prisk.
..... Click the link for more information.
United States of America

This article is part of the series:
Politics and government of
the United States


Federal government
Constitution
Taxation

President Vice President
Cabinet


Congress
Senate
..... Click the link for more information.
State of Georgia

Flag of Georgia Seal of Georgia
Nickname(s): Peach State, Empire State of the South
Motto(s): Wisdom, Justice, and Moderation

Official language(s) English

Capital Atlanta

..... Click the link for more information.
Atlanta, Georgia
Downtown Atlanta

Flag
Nickname: Hotlanta,[1] The A-T-L[1]
Location in Fulton and DeKalb counties and the state of Georgia
Coordinates:
..... Click the link for more information.
list of current and former national and subnational capital cities in the United States, which includes the legislature or seat of government of all states, territories, colonies, or kingdoms that are or were located in the United States, organized by current U.S. state location.
..... Click the link for more information.
The Geology of Georgia consists of four distinct geologic regions, beginning in the northwest corner of the state and moving through the state to the southeast: the Ridge and Valley, the Blue Ridge, the Piedmont, and the Coastal Plain.
..... Click the link for more information.
The History of Georgia spans Pre-Columbian time to the present day.

Prehistory

Prior to European contact, Native American cultures are divided into four time periods: Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland and Mississippian.
..... Click the link for more information.
The following is a list of Governors of the State of Georgia and governors of the British colony of Georgia.

Colonial governors

  • James Oglethorpe, Resident Trustee, 1733 - 1743 (Oglethorpe County)
  • William Stephens, President, 1743 - 1751

..... Click the link for more information.
: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

  • James Abercrombie, from Hancock County, Georgia, member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama[1]
  • A.

..... Click the link for more information.
State of Georgia
Atlanta (capital)
Geology | History | Governors |
..... Click the link for more information.

This article is copied from an article on Wikipedia.org - the free encyclopedia created and edited by online user community. The text was not checked or edited by anyone on our staff. Although the vast majority of the wikipedia encyclopedia articles provide accurate and timely information please do not assume the accuracy of any particular article. This article is distributed under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License.