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Ailey is a small incorporated city in western Montgomery County in southeast Georgia, bordered on its west side by Mount Vernon, the county seat.

A post office called Ailey was established in 1891, and the town was incorporated in 1893.

The 2020 census counted 519 residents in Ailey, up from 432 in 2010, in a county — Montgomery County — that had 8,610 residents in 2020.

U.S. Route 280 passes through Ailey, leading east about 10 miles to Vidalia in the heart of southeast Georgia's famous Vidalia onion country and west through Mount Vernon toward McRae-Helena.

For more than 85 years this tiny city had its own hometown bank, Montgomery Bank & Trust, headquartered on South Lee Street, until regulators closed it during the wave of Georgia bank failures that followed the 2008 financial crisis.

The city covers about 2.2 square miles of land drained by tributaries of the Oconee River, and boxing legend Sugar Ray Robinson is listed among the notable people associated with Ailey.