Uvalda, GA

Uvalda is a city in Montgomery County, Georgia, United States. The 2020 census counted 439 residents. The community derives its name from Juan de Ugalde, a Texas pioneer. The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Uvalda as a town in 1910. The short version is that Uvalda carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Uvalda: its past remains attached to the places people use now. U.S. Route 221 passes through the center of town, leading north-northwest 11 miles to Mount Vernon, the county seat, and south-southwest 13 miles to Hazlehurst. Georgia State Route 56 follows US 221 out of Uvalda to the northwest and leads east 25 miles to Reidsville.