Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Glennville, GA

Glennville is a city in southeastern Tattnall County, Georgia, set in the state's coastal plain about 50 miles west of Savannah.

With 3,834 residents at the 2020 census, Glennville is the largest city in Tattnall County, although the county seat is Reidsville.

Glennville's 3,834 residents lived in 1,523 households in 2020, spread across about 7.1 square miles surrounded by farmland and forest.

The Altamaha River flows about 10 miles southwest of Glennville, and the western edge of the Fort Stewart military reservation begins just east of town, across Beards Creek in Long County.

Smith State Prison, a close-security Georgia prison that can house more than 1,000 inmates, stands two miles north of Glennville and provides jobs for hundreds of people in Tattnall and surrounding counties.

Glennville is known for an unusual agricultural product — crickets farmed for use as animal feed — as well as for the pecans grown across the surrounding countryside.

The Glennwanis Hotel, built in downtown Glennville in 1926, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

Beards Creek Primitive Baptist Church, about five miles northeast of town, was established in 1804.

Notable people from Glennville include brothers Shannon and Sterling Sharpe, both inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and country music singer-songwriter Cole Swindell.

The Census Bureau classified 100 percent of Glennville's 2020 population as rural, even though Glennville is an incorporated city.