Tag: Vidalia
Vidalia (/vaɪˈdeɪljə/ vi-DALE-eyah or local /vaɪˈdeɪjə/ vi-DAY-leah) is a city in Toombs County, Georgia, United States. The city straddles Toombs County and Montgomery counties. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 10,491.
Vidalia is the principal city of the Vidalia Micropolitan Statistical Area, a micropolitan area that covers Montgomery and Toombs counties and had a combined population of 34,337 at the 2000 census.
Vidalia is the largest city in Toombs County, but is not the county seat. Like so many towns in the region, Vidalia grew up around a train depot that served farmers in the area who grew such crops as pecans and tobacco. The famous sweet onions were not an important crop until much later.
The town was incorporated on January 1, 1890.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 17.4 square miles (45 km), of which, 17.3 square miles (45 km) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km) of it (0.63%) is water. Vidalia is located at 32…
