Alapaha Georgia Map

About Alapaha, Georgia

Alapaha is a locality in Berrien County, Georgia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 481. The population density is 180.8 people per km². Alapaha is located at 31.3852°N, 83.2229°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Alapaha is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 31622.

Alapaha emerges from the flat, pine-shadowed expanse of the south Georgia plains, where the horizon remains wide and unobstructed by anything save the occasional silhouette of longleaf pines. It lies 17.4 miles east-southeast of Tifton, GA (from Tifton, GA: bearing 105°T), and is situated 12.4 miles north of Nashville. The ground here is a quiet composition of sandy loam and dark earth, holding the warmth of the sun long after the afternoon light has softened into a hazy, amber glow. Only a mile away, the Alapaha River carves a sluggish, tea-colored path through the landscape, its banks thick with tangled vegetation that muffles the sound of the wind. Beyond the immediate tree line, the terrain stretches toward Hammock Lake, where the water mirrors the shifting cloud patterns of a sky that seems to possess a weight and presence all its own.

Alapaha carries the quiet gravity of a place built upon the labor of the soil, where the economy has long drawn its pulse from the rhythm of timber and harvest. The legacy of the land is visible in the architecture of the older streets, where structures of weathered brick and timber stand as silent witnesses to the generations that cultivated these fields. Residents find a particular stillness in the vicinity of GFC Gaskins, where the managed wildness of the landscape offers a reprieve from the deliberate pace of daily work. Life in Alapaha moves with the predictable, unforced cadence of the seasons, defined by the scent of damp earth and the steady, persistent growth of the pine forests that keep the world beyond the horizon at a respectful distance.

About This Alapaha Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Alapaha, Georgia. Coordinates: 31.385195, -83.222932. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Alapaha includes the ZIP code (31622), telephone area code (229), county seat of Berrien County (Nashville), and school district assignment (Berrien County School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.