Du Pont is a town in Clinch County,

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, United States. The population was 134 in 2020. According to the 1916 ''History of Clinch County'' the town was first settled around 1856 as Lawton, on the route of the newly chartered Atlantic and Gulf Railroad. During the Civil War, a branch line from Lawton to

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, was built to assist the movement of Confederate troops and supplies, but was not completed until 1865, when the war was nearly over. The town was renamed in 1874 after J. P. A. DuPont, an early settler. It was incorporated as a city in 1889.

Geography

Du Pont is located in northwestern Clinch County at (30.9896, -82.8707). U.S. Route 84 passes through the center of the town, leading east to Homerville, the county seat, and west to Stockton. According to the

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, Du Pont has a total area of , all of it land.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 139 people, 57 households, and 42 families residing in the town. By 2010, its population was 120, and at the 2020 census, its population was 134.

References

{{authority control Towns in Clinch County, Georgia Towns in Georgia (U.S. state)