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Cornelia, Georgia Information
Home to the world’s largest apple sculpture, the city of Cornelia lies in southern Habersham County, Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 4,160, which was a small increase over the prior 2000 census. The area was also a base of operation for production of the 1956 Disney film The Great Locomotive Chase that was filmed along the Tallulah Falls Railway that ran from Cornelia northward along the rim of Tallulah Gorge to Franklin, North Carolina. The county is bordered to the southwest by Baldwin and the east by Mount Airy and has a total area of four square miles, most all of which is land. The city is covered by a single zip code, 30531 and the area code is 706. Cornelia abounds in historical lore. Near the city is the Wofford Trail, on which many stagecoach robberies occurred. The last railroad holdup in Georgia took place at Cagle’s Crossing, which is a few miles south of Cornelia. Habersham County was extremely loyal to the Confederacy and was known, along with the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and countless other fertile, out-of-the-way places as the “breadbasket of the Confederacy”, as thousands of bushels of wheat and corn were supplied to the troops from this area alone. After the fall of Atlanta, a detachment of Sherman’s cavalry was sent to raid the county; but the Confederate Home Guard, made up of men too old for military duty, left the mountains on which Cornelia is situated and met the Yankee raiders at a narrow pass about four miles east of the town. By making considerable noise and stirring up clouds of smoke, they scared off the enemy and saved the area from complete devastation. Today this skirmish is remembered as “The Battle of the Narrows.” A few years after the war, a young school teacher named William Herschel Cobb and his wife Amanda settled near the site of this skirmish, and she gave birth in 1886 to one of the greatest baseball players of all time, Ty Cobb. Mr. Cobb returned to retire in the same area. The city’s only zip code is 30501 and the area code is 706.
Cornelia is ranked #348 in Georgia and #20,823 in the United States with a livability score of 62, which is in the 28th percentile. The city scored best for great weather and low cost of living. The average summer temperature is a comfortable 76 degrees, and the cost of living is six percent lower than the state of Georgia.
The Cornelia, GA overall crime rate is 47% higher than in comparison to the Georgia average; and is also 76% higher than compared to the national average. Looking at violent crime specifically, Cornelia, GA has a violent crime rate that is 11% lower than the Georgia average and 8% lower than the national average. For property crime, Cornelia, GA is 54% higher than the Georgia average and 89% higher than the national average.
Of the factors which are used to determine the livability index, Cordele does well in the areas of weather and cost of living. It scores poorly in the areas of Crime, Employment, Housing and Education.
John Borrow is the Mayor for the City of Cornelia and he can be reached at jborrow@corneliageorgia.org.
City of Cornelia
181 Larkin Street
P.O. Box 785
Cornelia, GA 30531
706-778-8585
Cornelia City Mayor
