This Coffee County Georgia map places Douglas, Nicholls, Ambrose, and Broxton within a large Lower Coastal Plain county. Beyond identifying the outline, the guide connects central Douglas with the northwestern small towns, eastern Nicholls, the highway network, working farm-and-forest landscape, and the drainage divide between two major river systems.
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- Coverage: County outline and four incorporated cities
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Quick Facts
| State and FIPS code | Georgia; 13069 |
|---|---|
| County seat | Douglas |
| Created | 1854 |
| 2025 population estimate | 44,407 |
| 2020 census population | 43,092 |
| 2020 land area | 592.27 square miles |
| Adjacent counties | Telfair, Jeff Davis, Bacon, Ware, Atkinson, Berrien, Irwin, and Ben Hill |
| Incorporated cities | Douglas, Nicholls, Ambrose, and Broxton |
| Major roads | US 221, US 441, Georgia 32, and Georgia 268 |
| Major drainage | Upper Satilla and Ocmulgee basins |
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The Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate of 44,407 residents is 3.1 percent above the 2020 census count of 43,092. With 72.8 people per square mile in 2020 across 592.27 square miles of land, the county combines a compact service center at Douglas with extensive agricultural and forest acreage. These are countywide figures, not statistics for Douglas or the unincorporated territory by itself.
What the Map Shows
Douglas sits near the center, slightly toward the southern half, and functions as the county’s administrative, commercial, education, and health-service hub. Broxton lies north of Douglas, while Ambrose is farther northwest toward Irwin and Ben Hill counties. Nicholls is east of Douglas on the side leading toward Bacon and Ware counties. The four labels account for every incorporated city in Coffee County, although rural communities and postal place names are not labeled.
The city symbols should not be mistaken for municipal boundaries. A Douglas mailing address may fall outside the city, and park, school, fire, voting, parcel, and utility districts follow different lines. Property ownership, permitting, attendance zones, flood exposure, and emergency jurisdiction must be resolved with the current layer published by the responsible county, city, or state agency.
Even without detailed roads and streams, the arrangement of the four cities supplies a framework for a second thematic layer. Locate the north–south US 441 and US 221 approaches through Douglas and the east–west Georgia 32 corridor, then add Georgia 268 toward Broxton and Ambrose. The pattern explains how settlements are linked while broad tracts between them remain in farms, managed forest, wetlands, and dispersed housing.
County Layout and Location
Coffee County occupies Georgia’s Lower Coastal Plain and wiregrass region. Clockwise from the north, it meets Telfair, Jeff Davis, Bacon, Ware, Atkinson, Berrien, Irwin, and Ben Hill counties. Eight neighboring counties make Douglas less a satellite of one metropolitan area than a service and distribution center amid several rural county networks.
US 441, US 221, and Georgia 32 converge at Douglas. US 441 links the Ocmulgee corridor to the north with Atkinson County to the south; US 221 connects toward Jeff Davis and Atkinson counties; and Georgia 32 runs east through Douglas and Nicholls toward Bacon County. US 441 and Georgia 268 serve the Broxton–Ambrose side. Combined with the historic rail line, these routes account for Douglas’s stronger centrality relative to the county’s three smaller cities.
A basin divide adds unexpected complexity to the county. Twenty Mile Creek and the Seventeen Mile River around Douglas drain southeast toward the Satilla River. Georgia State Parks describes Seventeen Mile as an intermittent blackwater stream fed by rainfall runoff and freshwater springs. Rocky Creek at Broxton Rocks instead flows to the Ocmulgee River, sending water from northern Coffee County through a different Atlantic drainage route.
Near Nicholls, General Coffee State Park preserves Seventeen Mile River cypress swamp, sandhills, and longleaf pine–wiregrass habitat. East of Broxton, Broxton Rocks is a striking exception to the usually subdued Coastal Plain relief: Rocky Creek has cut exposed Altamaha Grit sandstone into cliffs, fissures, and a waterfall. Together the two areas demonstrate that local terrain ranges from wet blackwater bottoms to dry sandhills and a small rock gorge.
Local Context
The Georgia legislature created Coffee County on February 9, 1854, from portions of Clinch, Irwin, Telfair, and Ware counties. It was named for John E. Coffee, a planter and state and federal politician. Douglas became the county seat in the 1850s, but its decisive growth followed the railroad’s arrival and the granting of a city charter in 1895.
Rail access changed Douglas from an administrative location into a regional collection and distribution point. The Georgia and Florida Railway located offices there in 1909, and tobacco markets became especially important during the 1920s and 1930s. The restored 1905 depot, now Heritage Station Museum, preserves evidence of the transport network that also shaped the eastern corridor toward Nicholls.
Agriculture remains visible in both land cover and the local economy. The 2022 Census of Agriculture counted 541 farms covering 161,594 acres and $293.1 million in products sold. Livestock, poultry, and related products generated 65 percent of sales, led heavily by poultry and eggs. Cotton occupied 36,848 acres and peanuts 27,587 acres; another 42,406 farm acres were woodland. The resulting landscape is a mosaic of row crops, poultry operations, timber stands, and rural residences rather than one uniform crop belt.
Douglas also carries institutions whose reach extends beyond the county. South Georgia State College has its residential Douglas campus, and Wiregrass Georgia Technical College serves workforce education. During World War II, the 63rd Army Air Forces Contract Pilot School trained an estimated 10,000 cadets at Douglas. Surviving airfield buildings connect wartime aviation history with the present-day urban footprint.
Ways to Use This Map
- Separate local corridors: Treat Douglas as the center, Ambrose–Broxton as the northwestern arc, and Nicholls as the eastern anchor.
- Add highways: Overlay US 221, US 441, Georgia 32, and Georgia 268 from an official GDOT source to explain practical links among the four cities.
- Trace drainage: Compare Seventeen Mile River, Twenty Mile Creek, and Rocky Creek on a hydrology layer to identify the Satilla–Ocmulgee divide.
- Interpret working land: Pair USDA data with aerial imagery to distinguish cotton and peanut fields, poultry sites, and forest tracts.
- Verify jurisdiction: Resolve parcels, addresses, school zones, flood status, and utility service through the latest authoritative GIS rather than the static county image.
A report caption should state the map’s date context and omissions. All four incorporated cities are labeled, but their legal limits are not drawn, and General Coffee State Park, Broxton Rocks, waterways, and small communities lack symbols. For natural-resource or field-travel work, use this JPG as the location frame and add a current roads, hydrology, or land-cover layer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the city of Douglas in Douglas County?
No. The Douglas discussed here is the seat of Coffee County in south Georgia. Douglas County is a separate jurisdiction west of Atlanta with Douglasville as its county seat, an important distinction for address and search results.
Are the four labeled places all of Coffee County’s incorporated cities?
Yes. Georgia Department of Community Affairs planning records list Ambrose, Broxton, Douglas, and Nicholls. Unincorporated communities and rural postal areas remain outside the label set.
Do all Coffee County streams drain to the Satilla River?
No. Seventeen Mile River near Douglas and General Coffee State Park belongs to the Satilla system, while Rocky Creek at Broxton Rocks is an Ocmulgee tributary. That split between two basins is one of the county’s defining physical-geography features.
Sources
- U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts, original table and 2025 population and geography update
- USDA NASS: 2022 Census of Agriculture profile for Coffee County
- City of Douglas: county, railroad, and agricultural history and World War II flight-training base
- Georgia Department of Natural Resources: General Coffee State Park and Seventeen Mile River and habitat notes
- The Nature Conservancy: Broxton Rocks and Rocky Creek
- New Georgia Encyclopedia county profile
- Georgia Department of Community Affairs comprehensive-plan records
Population and area values follow the Census Bureau’s stated reference years, and agricultural figures come from the 2022 federal census. Municipal listings, history, and physical geography were cross-checked against state, city, and conservation sources. Estimates and administrative or environmental datasets change, so review each source date before a current legal or statistical use.
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