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Lumpkin is a city and county seat of Stewart County, Georgia, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 891.

This area of Georgia was inhabited by succeeding cultures of indigenous Native Americans for thousands of years before European contact. Historical tribes included the Cherokee, Choctaw and Creek, who encountered European Americans as their settlements moved into traditional territory. During the Indian removal of 1830, the United States government forced such tribes to move west of the Mississippi River to Indian Territory, to extinguish their claims and make way for more European American settlement. Lumpkin was incorporated by European Americans on March 30, 1829. First named the county seat of Randolph County on December 2, 1830, it became the seat of Stewart County when the latter was split from Randolph three weeks later. The city was named in honor of Wilson Lumpkin, a two term governor of Georgia and legislator who supported Indian removal. His namesake county is at the northern end of the state. The town grew as a commercial center served by stagecoach. Its merchants traded with the planters in the area. This was part of the Black Belt, named for the fertile land in the upland South that supported extensive cotton plantations in the 19th century. In the antebellum years, planters depended on the labor and skills of hundreds of thousands of enslaved African Americans to cultivate and process the cotton for market. In the 1960s, a group of citizens created a living history complex known as Westville. They relocated 30 historic structures to create a grouping of western Georgia architecture as would have been found in an 1850s working village. Some of the buildings were purchased from the collection of John Word West established in 1928 in Jonesboro, Georgia. The village, staffed by volunteers to give the sense of daily life, has since moved to Columbus, Georgia. It was removed from the 2020 U. S. Census geography for Lumpkin city hence the decline in population.

Lumpkin is located at U. S. Route 27 passes west of the city, leading north 37 mile (60 km) to Columbus and south 132 mile (212 km) to Tallahassee, Florida. Georgia State Route 27 also passes through the city, leading southwest 24 mile (39 km) to Georgetown on the Alabama state line and east 9 mile (14 km) to Richland. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and (1.25%) is water.