Avalon Georgia Map

About Avalon, Georgia

Avalon is a locality in Newton County, Georgia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 233. The population density is 50.9 people per km². Avalon is located at 34.4971°N, 83.1982°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Avalon is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 30557, 30274, 30014.

Avalon asserts its presence upon a landscape defined by the steady, persistent flow of West Bear Creek, which cuts a clear path through the red-clay piedmont. It lies 7.7 miles south-southeast of Covington, GA (from Covington, GA: bearing 158°T), and is situated 19.7 miles east of McDonough. The terrain here rises and falls in long, quiet swells, draped in the dense, tangled greenery of kudzu and the towering, needle-crowned stalks of longleaf pine. Three miles distant, the waters of Silver Lake offer a stillness that mirrors the heavy, humid sky, providing a reprieve from the heat that settles over the fields in the late afternoon. While the distant Appalachian Mountains are far enough to remain only a ghostly, slate-colored smudge on the horizon, the air in Avalon holds the weight of the interior plains, smelling faintly of turned earth and pine resin as the sun dips low.

Avalon grew from the labor of those who worked the soil, finding its rhythm in the cyclical harvest of peaches and pecans that still anchor the local economy today. The daily life of the residents remains tethered to the land and the quiet, administrative pulse of the courthouse square, where the pace is measured by the slow accumulation of seasons rather than the rush of modern commerce. Preservation efforts, such as the nearby Greenspace Program Acquisition, ensure that portions of the surrounding woodland remain untouched, allowing the native flora to hold its ground against the encroachment of development. This locality carries a certain gravity in its silence, a place where the history of agriculture is etched not into monuments, but into the very texture of the roads that lead toward the West Bear Creek, connecting the people to the deep, unyielding clay that sustains them.

About This Avalon Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Avalon, Georgia. Coordinates: 34.497141, -83.198203. 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 Avalon includes the ZIP code (30557, 30274, 30014), telephone area code (404, 470, 678, 770), county seat of Newton County (Covington), and school district assignment (Stephens 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.