Luthersville, Georgia
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Luthersville is a city in
Meriwether County, Georgia Meriwether County is a county in the West Central region of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 20,613.US 2020 Census Bureau report, Meriwether County, Georgia The county seat is Greenville, home of the Mer ...
, United States. The population was 776 at the 2020 census, down from 874 in
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History

The
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incorporated Luthersville as a town in 1872. The community was named after the 16th-century German reformer
Martin Luther Martin Luther ( ; ; 10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German priest, Theology, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and former Order of Saint Augustine, Augustinian friar. Luther was the seminal figure of the Reformation, Pr ...
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Geography

Luthersville is located in northern Meriwether County at (33.209299, −84.745286). Its northern border is the
Coweta County Coweta County is a county in the West Central region of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is part of Metro Atlanta. As of the 2020 census, the population was 146,158. The county seat is Newnan. Coweta County is included in the Atlanta-Sandy S ...
line. U.S. Route 27 Alternate is Luthersville's Main Street; the highway leads south to Greenville, the Meriwether
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, and north to Newnan.
Georgia State Route 54 State Route 54 (SR 54) is a state highway that travels southwest-to-northeast through portions of Troup, Meriwether, Coweta, Fayette, Clayton, and Fulton counties in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. The high ...
crosses US 27 Alternate in the center of Luthersville; it leads northeast to
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and southwest the same distance to Hogansville. According to the
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, Luthersville has a total area of , of which , or 0.72%, are water. The city sits on a ridge that forms the divide between the
Chattahoochee River The Chattahoochee River () is a river in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern United States. It forms the southern half of the Alabama and Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia border, as well as a portion of the Florida and Georgia border. It ...
watershed to the west and the
Flint River The Flint River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 15, 2011 river in the U.S. state of Georgia. The river drains of western Georgia, flowing south from th ...
watershed to the east. The northwest part of the city drains to Yellowjacket Creek, a tributary of the Chattahoochee, while the southern part of the city drains to Coleman Creek and the northeast part drains to Bear Creek, both tributaries of the Flint.


Demographics

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 776 people, 248 households, and 173 families residing in the city.


References

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