Proposed New Counties for Georgia

County Seat: Richmond Hill
Formed from: Bryan
Ogeechee county consists of the southern, more suburban part of Bryan County, which is separated from the northern, more rural part of the county (where the county seat, Pembroke, is) by the Army's Fort Stewart. The only connection between the two halves of the county is State Road 67, which is periodically closed during training exercises (and which the Army would probably like to close permanently). The new county boundary would run along the Canoochee River. The name comes from the Ogeechee River, which forms the northern border of the county and which has given its name to everything from towns to railroads in east central Georgia, but not yet to a county; however, given Georgia's penchant for naming counties after politicians and military officers of limited reknown, names like Carter, Nunn, or Talmadge County might work just as well (sorry, Ted, there's already a Turner County).

County Seat: Fargo
Formed from: Charlton, Ware, and Clinch
Okefenokee County places the small towns of Fargo, Edith and Council, which are 35 miles from the Clinch county seat of Homerville, into their own county, and adds the unpopulated Okefenokee Nat'l Wildlife Refuge from Ware and Charlton counties, putting almost the entire swamp into what would become both the largest (in area) and smallest (in population) of Georgia's counties (with roughly 1,000 people, quite metropolitan compared to Texas' Loving County, which has only 70). A small non-NWR corner of northwestern Charlton county would be added to Ware county at the same time. This arrangement gives Fargo greater local control, and also cleans up the bizarrely shaped Ware and Charlton counties. The county takes its name from the Okefenokee Swamp.

County Seat: St. George
Formed from: Charlton
Removing the western portion of Charlton County to create Okefenokee County results in a Charlton County which is over 50 miles long and only 12 miles wide. St. Marys County divides the lightly populated southern half of the county from the Folkston area in the north, and gives local control to St. George and the silly bubble in the boundary between Georgia and Florida, which should have happened long ago. St. Marys County takes its name from the St. Marys River, which forms the county's uniquely shaped boundary with Florida.