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McRae–Helena is a city in the U.S. state of Georgia, formed on January 1, 2015, by the merger of the two cities of McRae and Helena. McRae–Helena is the county seat of Telfair County. It is the largest city in Telfair County, with a population of 6,253 in 2020. [2] This includes the population held as inmates at McRae Correctional Institution.
Upon the city's merger with adjacent Helena in 2015, the new county seat is the combined city of McRae-Helena. As of the 2010 census, McRae had a population of 5,740, [4] up from 2,682 at the 2000 census, due largely to expansion of the city limits to incorporate the area and prison population of the McRae Correctional Institution, a privately ...
Helena was a city in Telfair and Wheeler counties in the U.S. state of Georgia.The population was 2,883 at the 2010 census, up from 2,307 in 2000 and 1,256 in 1990. The population increase accompanied establishment of the McRae Correctional Institution, which provided new jobs.
Telfair County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,477. [1] The largest city and county seat is McRae-Helena.
South Georgia is a seventeen-county region in the U.S. state of Georgia, [1] with a 2020 population of 292,759. The most populated county in the region is Laurens County, which had a 2020 census population of 49,570. The Dublin micropolitan area had a population of 65,903 in 2020.
Under the Georgia State Constitution, all of its counties are granted home rule to deal with problems that are purely local in nature. Each county has a county seat. In Georgia, county seats typically have a courthouse at a town square. Of the current 159 counties and two historic counties, 47 counties have changed their county seat at least once.
Maps show the areas impacted by storm surge, rainfall levels and more as Helene, once a major hurricane and now a tropical storm, moves inland from Florida's Gulf Coast over Georgia.
US 221 leads north 14 miles (23 km) to Soperton and south 25 miles (40 km) to Hazlehurst, while US 280 leads east 11 miles (18 km) to Vidalia and west 21 miles (34 km) to McRae–Helena. According to the United States Census Bureau , Mount Vernon has a total area of 4.2 square miles (11 km 2 ), of which 0.03 square miles (0.08 km 2 ), or 0.76% ...