Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia

Fort Oglethorpe population, 2020 to 2024

Fort Oglethorpe added 282 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.7%. In the latest year it moved by +41. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 84th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Fort Oglethorpe is 65% of it.

Fort Oglethorpe covers 13.90 square miles of land, for 764 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Fort Oglethorpe is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Fort Oglethorpe spans

Fort Oglethorpe crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 10,614 residents as follows; Catoosa County holds 96.6% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fort Oglethorpe

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Fort Oglethorpe by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30707, 30736, 30741, 30742. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Fort Oglethorpe is

The Census internal point of Fort Oglethorpe is at 34.931800, -85.246000. Atlanta, the capital, is 95.3 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is East Ridge, TN (21,970 people), 4.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chattanooga, TN, 9.3 miles away.

Daylight in Fort Oglethorpe

At 34.93° N, Fort Oglethorpe gets about 14 h 30 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 42 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fort Oglethorpe

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Rossville, 3.9 miles away, with 3,942 people.