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Oglethorpe, GA -- U.S. city in Georgia
Population (2000): 1200
Housing Units (2000): 566
Land area (2000): 2.032885 sq. miles (5.265147 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.028509 sq. miles (0.073838 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.061394 sq. miles (5.338985 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57736
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 32.293328 N, 84.062616 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 31068
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Oglethorpe -- U.S. County in Georgia
Population (2000): 12635
Housing Units (2000): 5368
Land area (2000): 441.111222 sq. miles (1142.472771 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.059021 sq. miles (2.742852 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 442.170243 sq. miles (1145.215623 sq. km)
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 33.877055 N, 83.111487 W
Headwords:
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Oglethorpe County
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Oglethorpe may refer to:

People

  • Oglethorpe (surname)

Places

  • Bramham cum Oglethorpe, West Yorkshire, England
  • Brookhaven/Oglethorpe (MARTA station), a passenger rail station located in the Brookhaven neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia
  • Mount Oglethorpe, Georgia
  • Oglethorpe County, Georgia
  • Oglethorpe, Georgia
  • Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Oglethorpe Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Oglethorpe Charter School in Savannah, Georgia
  • Oglethorpe Mall, a shopping mall in Savannah, Georgia
  • Military

:* Camp Oglethorpe, a prisoner of war camp near Macon, Georgia, maintained by the Confederates during the American Civil War

:* Oglethorpe Barracks, 19th century Army post, Savannah, Georgia

:* Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, the town

:* Fort Oglethorpe (Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia), Army base founded in 1904

:* Fort Oglethorpe, GA (Prisoner-of-war-Camp), a POW camp during World War I

:* Fort James Jackson, fort built during 1808-1812 that protected Savannah, Georgia and was also known as Fort Oglethorpe

Other Uses

  • Quercus oglethorpensis, also called Oglethorpe Oak, a species of plant found in the Piedmont of Georgia and South Carolina, and in Louisiana and Mississippi
  • USS Oglethorpe (AKA-100), an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship in service from 1945 to 1968
  • See List of NASCAR race tracks for Oglethorpe Speedway Park, a NASCAR race track in Pooler, Georgia
  • Oglethorpe Power, an electric power company headquartered in Tucker, Georgia
  • Change at Oglethorpe, a radio program that aired on BBC Radio 2
  • Oglethorpe, a recurring character from Aqua Teen Hunger Force
  • Bo Buchanan, Beaufort Oglethorpe "Bo" Buchanan, a fictional character on the soap opera One Life to Live
Oglethorpe (surname)
  • Owen Oglethorpe (died 1559), bishop of Carlisle who crowned Elizabeth I of England
  • Theophilus Oglethorpe (1650–1702), a member of the British Parliament
  • Eleanor Oglethorpe (1662–1732), Jacobite courtier
  • Lewis Oglethorpe (1681–1704), a member of the British Parliament
  • Anne Oglethorpe (1683–1756), Jacobite intriguer
  • Eleanor Oglethorpe de Mézières (1684–1775), Anglo-French Jacobite
  • Theophilus Oglethorpe, Jr. (1684–1737), a member of the British Parliament
  • James Oglethorpe (1696–1785), founder of the British colony of Georgia

Usage examples of "oglethorpe".

Master Oglethorpe must have been sucking up bourbon and branch water when he laid out this town.

I wandered along the cobbled sidewalk of Oglethorpe Avenue to the Colonial Park Cemetery, full of moldering monuments and densely packed with the gravestones of people famous to the state's history-Archibald Bulloch, the first president of Georgia, James Habersham, "a leading merchant," and Button Gwinnett, who is famous in America for being one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence and for having the silliest first name in Colonial history.

William drove the van along Oglethorpe Street and stopped at the famous Colonial Park Cemetery.

William drove the van along Oglethorpe Street, and stopped at the famous Colonial Park Cemetery.

Oglethorpe was expanding upon Jimmy's condition, although he had yet to examine the subject in person.

On several subsequent occasions she rescued David from similar predicaments, and once she dealt with a pair of burglars who had been tempted by the valuable collection of musical boxes, breaking the leg of one and stunning the other, with a neat right-and-left of her powerful wings, before David and Oglethorpe had even woken up.

Oglethorpe made sure to keep his raygun trained on little Jimmy the whole time as surety for their good behavior.