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Guyton is a city in Effingham County, Georgia, located about 28 miles northwest of downtown Savannah and part of the Savannah metropolitan statistical area.

The community began as Whitesville, after Squire Zachariah White received a 250-acre land warrant in 1792, and it took its early name from his settlement.

When the Central of Georgia Railroad laid its Savannah-to-Macon track through the settlement in 1837 or 1838, the stop was known only as Station Number 30.

Guyton got its current name from railroad president W. W. Gordon, who renamed the station for Archibald Guyton, a prominent local citizen who had arrived from North Carolina in 1825 and worked in the timber business.

A United States post office was established at Guyton on December 31, 1851.

Guyton was a prosperous town by the Civil War, and the Confederacy operated a hospital there during the war.

Guyton was incorporated in 1887, with the incorporation bill pushed through the Georgia legislature by Colonel Clarance Guyton, a grandson of Archibald Guyton.

The 2020 census counted 2,289 people in Guyton, up from 1,684 in 2010, living in 665 households and 527 families.

Guyton covers only about 3.2 square miles, yet it is one of just three incorporated places in Effingham County, alongside Springfield and Rincon.

South Effingham High School, one of Effingham County's two public high schools, is located in Guyton; opened in 1996 when the county high school was split, it serves roughly 1,900 students and its teams are the Mustangs.