Buckhead Georgia Map

About Buckhead, Georgia

Buckhead is a locality in Morgan County, Georgia, United States. It has a population of approximately 4,441. The population density is 628.1 people per km². Buckhead is located at 31.8618°N, 81.2603°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 30625, 30305, 31324.

Buckhead exists as a quiet reach of red-clay earth where the land leans into the slow, humid pulse of the inland piedmont. It lies 25.5 miles southeast of Monroe, GA (from Monroe, GA: bearing 128°T), and is situated 6.4 miles east-southeast of Madison. The horizon remains vast and unobstructed, though the distant, hazy blue silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains occasionally haunt the western sky on the clearest of afternoons. Massey Lake sits at the center of this landscape, its surface often mirroring the heavy, stagnant heat that settles over the fields during the long summer months. Nearby, the water of Sugar Creek carves a low, persistent path through the soil, while the dense, shadowed corridors of the Oconee National Forest offer a sharp contrast to the open agricultural patches that define the surrounding terrain.

Buckhead maintains a tether to the earth that feels older than the modern transit lines crossing the state, drawing its character from the proximity of the Redlands Wildlife Management Area. The economy here remains tethered to the slow accumulation of seasonal yields, a pace dictated by the hardening of the ground and the patience required for local timber and small-scale cultivation. Life in Buckhead unfolds in the amber light of late afternoon, when the longleaf pines cast thin, stretching shadows across the roads and the air takes on the scent of warm, damp minerals. It is a place where the history of the soil is written in the alternating layers of clay and loam, demanding an attention to the land that renders the frantic speed of larger centers entirely irrelevant.

About This Buckhead Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Buckhead, Georgia. Coordinates: 31.861845, -81.260314. 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 Buckhead includes the ZIP code (30625, 30305, 31324), telephone area code (404, 470, 678, 478), county seat of Morgan County (Madison), and school district assignment (Bryan 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.