Axson is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

and

census designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) in Atkinson County,

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, United States. The community is located on

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, east of

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. Axson has a

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with ZIP code 31624. Per the 2020 census, the population was 360.

History

An early variant name was "McDonald's Mill". A post office called Axson has been in operation since 1916. The latter name is after First Lady

Ellen Axson Wilson Ellen Louise Axson Wilson (May 15, 1860 – August 6, 1914) was First Lady of the United States from 1913 until her death in 1914, as the first wife of President Woodrow Wilson. Like her husband, she was a Southerner, as well as the daughter o ...

Demographics

Axson first appeared as a

in the 2020 U.S. Census.

2020 Census

At the 2020 census, the CDP had a population of 360. Among its population, 51.67% were non-Hispanic white, 3.89% African American, and 43.89% Hispanic or Latino of any race.

References

Unincorporated communities in Atkinson County, Georgia Census-designated places in Atkinson County, Georgia {{AtkinsonCountyGA-geo-stub