Whigham, GA

Whigham is a city in Grady County, Georgia, United States. The 2020 census counted 428 residents. The community was named after Robert Whigham, a local merchant. The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Whigham as a town in 1896. Grady County School System operates area public schools. Whigham School, a K-12 school, is in Whigham. The short version is that Whigham carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Whigham: its past remains attached to the places people use now. U.S. Route 84 passes through the center of town as Broad Avenue; it leads east 8 miles to Cairo, the county seat, and west 15 miles to Bainbridge. Valdosta is 67 miles to the east, and Dothan, Alabama, is 70 miles to the west.