Colquitt County Georgia map | Moultrie and Southwest Georgia Farming

The Colquitt County Georgia map is organized around Moultrie, the county seat, and five smaller incorporated places spread through a broad agricultural county. Its labels—Moultrie, Berlin, Doerun, Ellenton, Funston, and Norman Park—establish direction and relative position without crowding the image with every road or rural community.

The accompanying account combines 2020 land and population geography, the Census Bureau’s 2025 population estimate, the 2022 Census of Agriculture, Georgia planning records, and USGS stream records. Parcel lines, municipal limits, flood zones, and turn-by-turn routes require their respective authoritative layers.

Quick Facts

The Census Bureau estimated 47,438 residents on July 1, 2025, an increase of 3.3 percent from the 2020 estimates base. The table retains the decennial census population and 2020 land-area measure so that density and area comparisons use a common benchmark year.

What the Map Shows

Moultrie occupies the central reference position. Doerun lies to the northwest, Norman Park to the northeast, Ellenton to the east, Berlin to the southeast, and Funston west of Moultrie. Reading those directional relationships first prevents similarly scaled town symbols from implying that every place has the same population or civic role.

The six labels correspond to the local governments presented with the county in Georgia’s 2022 joint comprehensive-plan record. They identify community centers, not surveyed municipal polygons; unincorporated settlements, subdivisions, and cross-county features are outside the image’s labeling scheme.

Worth County adjoins the northwest, Tift the northeast, Cook the east, Brooks the southeast, Thomas the southwest, and Mitchell the west. Those neighbors explain the directions in which county roads continue, but their communities and detailed boundary geometry are intentionally beyond this county-centered frame.

County Layout and Location

US 319 supplies a north–south axis through Moultrie, while Georgia 37 carries the principal east–west orientation. Georgia 133 links the Albany and Valdosta directions through the region. For travel, freight, or emergency routing, compare the town pattern here with GDOT’s current official highway map because route alignments and access conditions are not encoded in the county image.

Surface drainage is divided. Western portions belong to the Ochlockonee River system; much of the central and eastern county drains through Withlacoochee- and Little River-related subbasins of the Suwannee system. A small northwestern corner reaches the Flint drainage. County identity therefore does not equal a single watershed boundary.

Okapilco Creek runs southward through the Moultrie area and near Berlin. USGS records include monitoring locations at James Buckner Road, Georgia 35, below Moultrie, and Wesley Chapel Road near Berlin. The stream’s mapped course and associated floodplain should be taken from a hydrographic or flood-hazard layer, not inferred from the city dots.

Georgia assigns Colquitt County to the Lower Flint–Ochlockonee water-planning region for demand, supply, and management coordination. That administrative planning region itself contains portions of several river basins, so the designation should not be read as proof that every acre drains to the Ochlockonee.

The broad rural pattern is visible in the Census Bureau’s 2020 density of 83.9 people per square mile. Moultrie concentrates government, retail, and services, while lower-density farmland separates the smaller communities. That contrast is the defining spatial relationship behind the sparse label arrangement.

Local Context

Colquitt County was created in 1856. Rail expansion after the Civil War supported timber, naval stores, and sawmills, but depleted forests pushed the local economy toward diversified agriculture by the early twentieth century. Moultrie’s courthouse, rail connections, and commercial district reinforced its role as the county’s hub.

The USDA counted 429 farms occupying 184,400 acres in 2022. Agricultural products sold for $385.752 million, split almost evenly between crops at 49 percent and livestock, poultry, and related products at 51 percent. The balance distinguishes Colquitt from a county dominated by only one commodity.

Crop sales ranked first among Georgia counties in that census. Cotton covered 50,510 acres, peanuts 30,728 acres, and vegetables 14,459 acres; irrigated land totaled 50,821 acres. These figures give geographic weight to the large cultivated spaces between the labeled communities and to the importance of watershed and water-supply planning.

Spence Field near Moultrie hosts the Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition. Its organizers describe a 100-acre exhibit area alongside a 530-acre working research farm used for irrigation, precision-agriculture, and crop demonstrations. The site ties the central road network to agricultural research and regional farm commerce rather than functioning merely as an event venue.

Moultrie’s 1902 courthouse and surrounding downtown mark the long-standing administrative core. Outside that center, farm production, poultry and livestock operations, food processing, and the roads that connect them shape day-to-day land use more strongly than the compact town symbols suggest.

Ways to Use This Map

• Set Moultrie as the reference point and compare the direction of the six labeled communities.
• Overlay the US 319, Georgia 37, and Georgia 133 corridors from GDOT data when studying regional access.
• Open a USGS hydrography layer to trace Okapilco Creek and the county’s watershed divides.
• Use the county frame behind reports on irrigation, crop acreage, poultry, food processing, or the Sunbelt Expo.
• Begin local-history or genealogy research with town direction, then verify addresses in period records and current GIS data.

For print, choose a size at which both the county edge and all six labels remain legible. The limited label set is deliberate; an address search, farm entrance, bridge location, evacuation route, or property boundary calls for a more detailed source.

Use FEMA data for flood hazards, the county GIS for parcels, and GDOT or local notices for current closures. The downloadable JPG works best as the opening geographic frame before those specialized layers are consulted.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the city of Colquitt the county seat of Colquitt County?

No. The city of Colquitt is the seat of Miller County. Moultrie is the seat of Colquitt County, so searches and mailing records should be checked for both the city name and the county field.

Why are only six cities labeled?

The labels follow the county and six municipalities grouped in Georgia’s 2022 joint comprehensive-plan record: Moultrie, Berlin, Doerun, Ellenton, Funston, and Norman Park. Smaller unincorporated communities and detailed local features are omitted.

Does the entire county drain to one river?

No. The west is associated with the Ochlockonee system, central and eastern areas largely connect to the Suwannee system, and a small northwestern portion reaches the Flint drainage. A USGS hydrologic-unit map is needed for a site-specific answer.

Sources

• U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts
• USDA 2022 Census of Agriculture county profile
• The New Georgia Encyclopedia county profile
• Georgia Department of Community Affairs planning records
• USGS Okapilco Creek monitoring location
• Georgia regional water-planning map
• Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition overview
• Georgia DOT official transportation map service

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