Columbia County Georgia Legal Organ

This website is a compilation of public announcements published in newspapers throughout the state of Georgia. GeorgiaPublicNotice.com provides access to national notices of seizures, hearings, tenders, financial reports, orders and other government activities that must be published 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Columbia County was formed on December 10, 1790 from parts of Richmond County. Columbia is the 12th county of Georgia, and from its original boundaries, parts of Warren County and McDuffie County were formed. Shortly after its founding, Peter Crawford was appointed the first clerk of the upper and lower courts of Columbia County. Cobbham, Kiokee and Appling were all the county seats. Currently, the County Justice Center in Evans serves as the main courthouse. Our employees constantly strive to provide the highest level of professional public service to the residents of Columbia County. • File, register, and index all documents related to Columbia County real estate, including deeds, plates, and cancellations. The public announcements that appear on this website are available free of charge to users of GeorgiaPublicNotice.com and were originally published in newspapers in Georgia, the reliable source of all community information.

• Records and procedures for the service of all civil cases relating to legal actions, convictions, appeals from local courts and estates, title deeds, insurance, etc. Evans Justice Center 640 Ronald Reagan Drive Evans, GA 30809 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday Except Holidays • Processes penalty packages for the Department of Corrections for the transfer of prisoners to the state system and requests for review of sentences. The clerk of the Superior Court is an elected representative, a constitutional officer of that court. The Office of the Clerk of the Superior Court is an important institution for all branches of the justice system. • Archive and process all Uniform Commercial Codes (CIUs), privileges on personal property for public disclosure. The Supreme Court was established under the Constitution of 1798 and is the highest court in each county.

This is a case court, which means that all files, documents and minutes filed in this office cannot be changed after filing. Appling Court House 1958 Appling-Harlem Hwy. Appling, GA 30802 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Every Tuesday except holidays, email notification option for those who regularly need to search for public notifications, save search criteria, print multiple notifications at once, or receive automatic search results on a daily basis. • Archives and processes all arrest warrants, indictments, charges and verdicts on all cases of crime and misdemeanour. • Maintains registers of all appeal cases before the civil, national and criminal divisions of the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Georgia. The court is still held at the Appling Courthouse – the oldest courthouse in Georgia still in use. Built in 1812, the Appling Courthouse was completely rebuilt in 1856, and further renovations were needed in the late 1970s. • Filing and processing for the service of all cases of divorce, adoptions, name changes, alimony, change of custody and non-compliance. • Files, recording and indexing of all judgments, tax privileges and Fifas.