Wilkinson County, Georgia

Municipal Services

Facilities

	Four tennis courts
	One golf course
	One swimming pool
	One country club

State Park

Hamburg State Park (62 miles) with fishing, camping, agricultural musuem, and working grist mill

Public Lake/River

Oconee River (20 miles) has swimming, fishing, camping, water skiing and motor boating Yearly Events Wilkinson County Arts and Crafts Show (early November)

Utilities

Electricity

A part of Georgia's modern integrated electrical transmission system, Irwinton has excellent ability to supply industrial demands. Compared to 47% for the U.S., coal accounts for 84% of fuel used by the state's power generating plants. This assures long-term continuity.

Natural Gas

Available in industrial quantities on both a firm and an interruptible basis.

Water

	Plant capacity: 1,300,000 gal/day
	Consumption: 300,000 gal/day avg and 700,00 gal/day max.
	Two elevated storage tanks with 450,000 gallon capacity
	Source: 2 deep wells

Sewage

	Plant capacity: 900,000 gal/day
	Plant load: 500,000 gal/day
	Primary and secondary treatment plant

Taxes

Property

	Property taxes are determined by tax rates and assessment ratios which vary by location. The on ly realistic way to compare property taxes for different locations is to use "effective tax rates" (tax rate multiplied by assessment ratio). Effective tax rates combine city, county, school, and sales tax rates into once convienent figure -- the annual tax for each $1,000 of property at its fair market value. This rate applies to all property: land, buildings, machinery, equipment, and inventory.
	'95 effective rate for property within the city: $12.04
	'95 effective rate for property outside the city: $10.80

Sales

City and county have 1% local sales tax in addition to the 4% state sales tax.

Transportation

Motor Freight Carriers

1 interstate and 21 inner/intrastate

Rail

	Norfolk Southern rail service at Gordon (local)
	Norfolk Southern piggyback service at Macon (20 miles).

Water

	Nearest navigable river: Chattahoochee (9 foot channel depth) with a public barge dock at Columbus (115 miles).
	Nearest seaport: Savannah (168 miles) with a maintained channel depth of 42 feet.

Air

	Nearest commercial air service: Macon (20 miles). Airlines: Atlantic Southeast
	Nearest public airport at Macon (20 miles) 6,500 foot bituminous runway
	Services and navigational aids: aircraft tiedown airframe & power plant repair hangar lighted runway VOR, ILS, NDB

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Wilkinson County, Georgia