Tift County, Georgia

PO Box 354
Tifton, GA 31793
Phone: (229) 386-7810
Fax: (229) 386-7813
www.tiftcounty.org

In south-central GA, east of Albany; organized Aug 17, 1905 from Berrien, Irwin, and Worth counties. Name Origin: For Capt. Nelson Tift (1810-91), GA legislator, officer in the Confederate Navy, and U.S. representative (1868-69). Founder of the city of Albany, GA (1836)

Area (sq mi):: 268.86 (land 265.05; water 3.81) Population per square mile: 153.90
Population 2005: 40,793 State rank: 47 Population change: 2000-20005 6.20%; 1990-2000 9.70% Population 2000: 38,407 (White 62.70%; Black or African American 28.00%; Hispanic or Latino 7.70%; Asian 1.00%; Other 5.70%). Foreign born: 5.50%. Median age: 33.00
Income 2000: per capita $16,833; median household $32,616; Population below poverty level: 19.90% Personal per capita income (2000-2003): $21,878-$22,596
Unemployment (2004): 4.30% Unemployment change (from 2000): -0.20% Median travel time to work: 17.90 minutes Working outside county of residence: 15.50%

Cities with population over 10,000:

Tifton

(16,197)

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The bank currently has its main office located in Colquitt County and branch offices located in Baker County, Worth County, Lowndes County and Tift County.

Southwest Georgia Financial declares dividend

The study site was located within the University of Georgia Ponder Farm (31.5113889[degrees]N, 83.6444444[degrees]W) in Tift County, Georgia.

Parasitism of Megacopta cribraria (Hemiptera: Plataspidae) by Paratelenomus saccharalis (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) in organic soybean plots in Georgia, USA

Angels, Alex Abbott, rf, Tift County HS, Tifton, Ga.

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school districts and used a mixed-method design to address the following key research questions: "what progress in literacy do students who receive LLI make compared to students who receive only regular classroom literacy instruction?" and "was LLI implemented with fidelity to the developers' program model?" Five elementary schools in the Tift County School District (TCS) in Tifton, Georgia, and four elementary schools in the Enlarged City School District of Middletown (ECSDM) in Middletown, New York, volunteered to participate in the study.

A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Response-to-Intervention (RTI) Tier 2 Literacy Program: Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI)

Increasing CsT adoption by 10% increases estimated water savings to 0.27 to 1.1 years in Colquitt and Dougherty Counties and 2.1 to 8.3 years in Tift County. In drought years, estimated water savings under the current CsT adoption rate range from 0.09 to 0.35 years (Colquitt and Dougherty Counties) or 0.71 to 2.7 years (Tift County) (table 5).

Potential impact of conservation tillage on conserving water resources in Georgia

The last of the Georgia tornadoes was an EF-1 tornado, which touched down in northwestern Tift County at 0542 UTC (12:42 AM EST).

Tornado Outbreak of March 1-2, 2007

The 894 [F.sub.4:5] lines were also planted in single replicate plots at the Gibbs farm in Tift County, GA, in 1999.

Resistance to Tomato spotted wilt virus and root-knot nematode in peanut interspecific breeding lines. (Plant Genetic Resources)

He suggested that the most obvious routes would have been I-75 for the Lowndes and Tift county populations and I-95 for the Camden and Glynn county populations.

Northernmost record of the brown anole (Anolis sagrei) in Georgia

And it didn't take long to generate reading excitement throughout the community once school and civic leaders, along with the Tift County Foundation for Educational Excellence, set a million-point goal.

Reading for the record: imagine a community so focused on reading that it might just break a Guinness World Record. (Reading)

She wondered if Mike Brumby, who ran the Tift County Foundation for Educational Excellence, could help her buy a reading program called Accelerated Reader.

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Oconee County, Georgia (population 25,000) looked south to Tift County before deciding on a proportional system that set its fee at $1.50 per bag.

Designing a rate structure for pay-as-you-throw

On June 22, 1996, a 53-year-old man residing in Tift County, Georgia, was admitted to a hospital because of a 12-day history of fever, chills, fatigue, and myalgias.

Probable locally acquired mosquito-transmitted Plasmodium vivax infection - Georgia, 1996