Carrollton is a city located in western Georgia, United States, about ten miles from the Alabama state line. As of the 2015 United States Census, the city had a population of 25,515. The city is rapidly growing as the University of West Georgia continues to expand. The city is the county seat of Carroll County.Historically, Carrollton has been a commercial center for Carroll County and many other counties in Georgia and Alabama. It is the home of the University of West Georgia and West Georgia Tech.GeographyCarrollton is located near the center of Carroll County at . The Little Tallapoosa River flows through the northwestern part of the city. U.S. Route 27 passes through the city center, leading north 9mi to Interstate 20 in Bremen and south to LaGrange.According to the United States Census Bureau, Carrollton has a total area of 59.1km2 .HistoryCarroll County, of which Carrollton is the county seat, was chartered in 1826, and was governed at the time by the Carroll Inferior Court, which consisted of five elected justices. In 1829, the justices voted to move the county seat from the site it occupied near the present community of Sandhill, to a new site about 8mi to the southwest.The original intention was to call the new county seat "Troupville", in honor of former governor George Troup, but Troup was not popular with the state government of the time, so the Georgia General Assembly incorporated the town as Carrollton, in December 1829. The name was in honor of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence.
