Chattahoochee County was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on February 13, 1854. It was formed from portions of Muscogee and Marion counties and named for the river that forms its western boundary. The act appointed five commissioners to choose a site for the county seat, which they named Cusseta to commemorate the Creek Indian town that used to exist nearby.[6]
Cusseta was incorporated as a city on December 22, 1855. It is still the only incorporated city in Chattahoochee County.
Cusseta briefly prided itself on having the world's tallest man-made structure, the WTVM/WRBL-TV & WVRK-FM Tower, a guyed transmission tower built in 1962 about one mile from the city. However, it was surpassed only one year later by the KVLY-TV mast in Fargo, North Dakota.
In 2003, the city and county formed a consolidated Cusseta-Chattahoochee County government.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.9 km2), of which 1.5 square miles (3.9 km2) is land and 0.66% is water.
According to the 2000 U.S. census, there were 1,196 people, 436 households, and 316 families residing in the city.[2] By the 2020 census, its population was 9,565, down from 11,267 in 2010.
Education
Chattahoochee County School District
The Chattahoochee County School District holds pre-school to grade twelve, and consists of one elementary school, a middle school, and a high school.[9] The district has 85 full-time teachers and over 1000 students.[10]
Constructed in Cusseta in 1902, this two-story fireproof jail facility served the county until 1975. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 13, 1986.