Cartersville

Cartersville is a town in Bartow County inside the U.S. Country of Georgia; it's miles placed within the northwest fringe of the Atlanta metropolitan vicinity. As of the 2010 census, the metropolis had a populace of 19,731. Cartersville is the county seat of Bartow County. Cartersville was first called Birmingham to its authentic English settlers. The city turned into included as Cartersville in 1854. The gift name is for Col. Farish Carter of Milledgeville, the owner of a large plantation.

Cartersville became unique the seat of Bartow County in 1867 following the destruction of Cassville via Sherman in the American Civil War. Cartersville turned into integrated as a town in 1872. Cartersville is located in south-important Bartow County, 42 miles northwest of downtown Atlanta and 76 miles southeast of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The Etowah River flows thru a broad valley south of the downtown, main west to Rome, where it forms the Coosa River, a tributary of the Alabama River. The metropolis limits extend eastward, upriver, as some distance as Allatoona Dam, which bureaucracy Lake Allatoona, a big U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir. Red Top Mountain State Park sits on a peninsula within the lake, simply outside the town limits. Nancy Creek additionally flows within the place.The highest factor inside the town is 1,562 toes on the summit of Pine Mountain.