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Appling County is located approximately 90 miles Southwest of Savannah, 110 miles South of Macon and 193 miles Southeast of Atlanta. The county seat, Baxley, is located at the crossroads of Development Highways US #1 and US #341. Baxley is also centered between three interstates: I-16, I-75, & I-95.
Appling County's population is approximately 17,500. Baxley accounts for 4,150 of the total population number. The median age is 35.4.
Baxley is Georgia's 26th Largest County.
The county was named for Colonel Daniel Appling, who was considered Georgia's most outstanding soldier in the War of 1812. The county was created in 1818 from treaty lands obtained from the Creek Indians.
At one time, Appling County was known as the "Turpentine Capital of the World."
Incorporated in 1875, Baxley was named for Wilson Baxley. Baxley was an early settler who, like most of the early white settlers in the area, came from coastal North Carolina. He operated a general store where the town later developed. | 
