Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Byron, GA

Byron is a city mostly in Peach County in middle Georgia, though its edges also extend into Houston and Crawford counties — and it is not to be confused with Byron, Illinois.

Byron began in the 1850s as a flag stop on the Southwestern Railroad nicknamed "Number One and a Half Station," where Nimrod Jackson kept a wood rack for wood-burning locomotives; the stop later became known as Jackson Station.

Local tradition holds that the town was named for Lord Byron, the favorite poet of Dr. C.H. Richardson, the young doctor and state legislator who secured Byron's incorporation in 1874 and became its first mayor.

Byron is said to sit on the highest point on the rail line between Macon, Georgia, and Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Byron's population was 5,702 at the 2020 census, up from 4,512 in 2010, and Census Bureau QuickFacts counts about 2,346 households in the city for 2020–2024.

The Byron Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, preserves the town's circa-1900 wood-frame railroad depot and its early-20th-century brick commercial buildings along the tracks.

Downtown Byron's park, Jailhouse Park, takes its name from the town jail built around 1875 on a 40-square-foot plot the city bought for $20.

Byron grew as a rail shipping point for local farm products — first cotton in the early 1900s, and later the peaches that made the region famous.

Byron lies in Peach County, created in 1924 from parts of Houston and Macon counties as the last county formed in Georgia and named for the peach crop the area was famous for.

Byron shares the annual Georgia Peach Festival each June with Fort Valley, the county seat — a celebration of the peach industry famous for baking the world's largest peach cobbler.