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Jersey is a tiny town in Walton County, Georgia, about 30 miles east of Atlanta.

The community was originally known as Centerville because it was almost equidistant from the surrounding towns of Monroe, Social Circle, Covington, and Loganville.

Around 1904, when the town sought its own post office, federal rules barred two Georgia towns from sharing a name, and after a winter-long debate the town renamed itself "Jersey" after a prized full-blooded Jersey bull imported from the Isle of Jersey by prominent local dairy farmer H. D. Abercrombie.

The town's post office had first opened in 1884, before the name change to Jersey.

The population of Jersey was 146 at the 2020 census, up slightly from 137 in 2010.

Jersey covers less than one square mile — about 0.78 square miles — at an elevation of roughly 830 feet.

Jersey had its own local school, staffed almost entirely by local residents, until the early 1960s; today the town is served by the Walton County School District.

Jersey sits in Walton County, whose seat is Monroe and which was created in 1818 and named for George Walton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.