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Statham is a small city in eastern Barrow County, Georgia, about 13 miles west of Athens and roughly 50 miles northeast of Atlanta.

The community was named after Charles Statham, an official of the University of Georgia, according to Kenneth Krakow's Georgia Place-Names.

Statham boomed with the railroad era: its population jumped from just 172 in 1900 to 621 in 1910, a rise of about 261 percent in a single decade.

Statham had 2,813 residents at the 2020 census, up from 2,408 in 2010, living in 991 households, with a median age of 36.5 years.

Statham's downtown historic district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

In the 2010s Statham drew statewide scrutiny for aggressive DUI enforcement after the city's projected revenue from fines more than tripled in two years, prompting lawsuits, a settlement, and lasting debate over 'policing for profit' in the small city.

Pupils in Statham attend Barrow County Schools: Statham Elementary School and Bear Creek Middle School are both located in the city, and local students feed into Winder-Barrow High School.

Statham sits at an elevation of about 892 feet and covers roughly 3.6 square miles of eastern Barrow County.

Barrow County, of which Statham is one of only three incorporated cities, was created in 1914 and named for David Crenshaw Barrow Jr., a longtime chancellor of the University of Georgia; its seat is Winder and it had 83,505 residents in 2020.

Statham has grown steadily for four straight decades, more than doubling from 1,360 residents in 1990 to 2,813 in 2020 as the Atlanta metropolitan area expanded northeast.