Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Grovetown, GA

Grovetown is a city in Columbia County, Georgia, part of the Augusta metropolitan area, and it is the largest city and one of only two incorporated cities in the county, the other being Harlem.

The community grew up around the Old Grove Baptist Church, founded in 1808, from which Grovetown takes its name; in the era when the Georgia Railroad was built through the area, the settlement was known as Belair.

Grovetown was chartered by the Georgia Legislature and officially incorporated on January 1, 1881.

Grovetown's first United States mail service began on September 28, 1877, with Charles Clifford as postmaster, and its ornate 1891 railroad depot served passengers until rail service ended and the building was demolished in 1973.

In the 1860s the post-Civil War poet Paul Hamilton Hayne moved to Copse Hill in the Parham Road area of Grovetown, and through the 1800s many wealthy Augusta residents kept summer homes in the community.

The Grovetown Museum on East Robinson Avenue, established through a grant championed by the city, was the first museum created in Columbia County and preserves artifacts and photographs of the city's past.

Grovetown sits on high ground about 15 miles west of downtown Augusta, roughly two miles northwest of the northern boundary of Fort Gordon, the Army post renamed Fort Eisenhower in 2023 and restored to the Fort Gordon name in 2025, which hosts the U.S. Army Cyber Command and the Cyber Center of Excellence.

Because so many soldiers, civilian employees, and contractors from the fort live there, Grovetown promotes itself as the community that would be the post's official hometown if it had one.

Grovetown has grown explosively with the fort, nearly doubling every decade: 3,596 residents in 1990, 6,089 in 2000, 11,216 in 2010, and 15,577 in the 2020 census.

Census Bureau population estimates put Grovetown at about 17,939 residents by July 1, 2025, making it one of the fastest-growing cities in the Augusta region.