Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald is a small town in Georgia's Plantation Midlands region, and is the center of the Fitzgerald Micropolitan Area. It was founded in 1895 by former Union Army drummer boy Philander H.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 9,010 residents
- Description: city in Ben Hill and Irwin counties in Georgia, United States
- Also known as: “Fitzgerald, GA”, “Fitzgerald, Georgia”, “Shack Town”, and “Swan”
- Postal code: 31750
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ben Hill County Jail and Ben Hill County Courthouse.
Ben Hill County Jail
Prison
Photo: Mjrmtg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Ben Hill County Jail is a historic building in Fitzgerald, Georgia, located on Pine Street. It was built in 1909 in the Romanesque style, the first jail in the 1906-created county.
Ben Hill County Courthouse
Courthouse
Photo: Mjrmtg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ben Hill County Courthouse is the historic county courthouse of Ben Hill County, Georgia, located in Fitzgerald. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1980. It is located at East Central Avenue at South Sheridan Street.
Fitzgerald
- Categories: city in the United States, municipality of Georgia, and locality
- Location: Ben Hill, Plantation Midlands, Georgia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.715° or 31° 42′ 54″ northLongitude
-83.2542° or 83° 15′ 15″ westPopulation
9,010Elevation
361 feet (110 metres)United Nations Location Code
US FZGOpen location code
863RPP8W+28OpenStreetMap ID
node 153914903OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Fitzgerald” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فيتزجيرالد”
- Basque: “Fitzgerald”
- Catalan: “Fitzgerald”
- Cebuano: “Fitzgerald”
- Chechen: “Фицджеральд”
- Chinese: “Fitzgerald”
- Chinese: “菲茨杰拉德”
- Czech: “Fitzgerald”
- Dagbani: “Fitzgerald”
- Danish: “Fitzgerald”
- Dutch: “Fitzgerald”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فيتزجيرالد”
- French: “Fitzgerald”
- German: “Fitzgerald”
- Gilaki: “فیتزجرالد (جؤرجيا)”
- Gilaki: “فیتزجرالد”
- Greek: “Φιτζέραλντ”
- Haitian: “Fitzgerald, Georgie”
- Haitian: “Fitzgerald”
- Hungarian: “Fitzgerald”
- Ido: “Fitzgerald, Georgia”
- Ido: “Fitzgerald”
- Indonesian: “Fitzgerald, Georgia”
- Indonesian: “Fitzgerald”
- Irish: “Fitzgerald”
- Italian: “Fitzgerald”
- Japanese: “フィッツジェラルド”
- Ladin: “Fitzgerald (Georgia (stat American))”
- Ladin: “Fitzgerald)”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Fitzgerald”
- Mazanderani: “فیتزجرالد”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fitzgerald”
- Newari: “फिट्ज्गेराल्ड (ज्योर्जिया)”
- Newari: “फिट्ज्गेराल्ड, जर्जिया”
- Newari: “फिट्ज्गेराल्ड, ज्योर्जिया”
- Newari: “फिट्ज्गेराल्ड”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fitzgerald”
- Norwegian: “Fitzgerald”
- Persian: “فیتزجرالد، جورجیا”
- Persian: “فیتزجرالد”
- Polish: “Fitzgerald”
- Portuguese: “Fitzgerald”
- Russian: “Фицджералд”
- Serbian: “Фицџералд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fitzgerald, Georgia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fitzgerald”
- Slovak: “Fitzgerald”
- Slovenian: “Fitzgerald”
- South Azerbaijani: “فیتزجرالد، جورجیا”
- Spanish: “Fitzgerald (Georgia)”
- Spanish: “Fitzgerald”
- Swedish: “Fitzgerald, Georgia”
- Swedish: “Fitzgerald”
- Tatar: “Фицджеральд”
- Turkish: “Fitzgerald, Georgia”
- Turkish: “Fitzgerald”
- Ukrainian: “Фіцджеральд”
- Urdu: “فتزجیرالڈ، جارجیا”
- Uzbek: “Fitzgerald”
- Volapük: “Fitzgerald”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fitzgerald, Georgia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fitzgerald”
- Welsh: “Fitzgerald, Georgia”
- Welsh: “Fitzgerald”
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