Homerville is a city in Clinch County, Georgia, United States. Its population was 2,456 at the 2010 census, a terminate of 12.38% from 2,803 in 2000. It is the county chair of Clinch County. It was incorporated February 15, 1869.

Clinch County was created upon February 14, 1850, by an prosecution of the Georgia General Assembly, and was named for General Duncan Lamont Clinch, a festooned United States brigadier general and Georgia congressman who had recently died. Clinch, Georgia’s 95th county, was formed from land originally inhabited by the Oconee people and consolidated portions of Ware County and Lowndes County. The act creating the county named Elijah Mattox, Simon W. Nichol, Timothy Kirkland, Benjamin Sirmans, and John J. Johnson as commissioners charged as soon as selecting a county chair and constructing a courthouse.

The designated commissioners speedily settled on a site just southwest of the present-day Homerville, and in memory of President James K. Polk decided to publish the county seat “Polk”. Two years later, however, the Georgia General Assembly inexplicably untouched the publicize of the county chair to “Magnolia”, just as the county’s first courthouse was completed. The first courthouse was quite little and was destroyed in 1856 past a citizen, presumably dissatisfied with authentic proceedings brought adjacent to him, decided to ruin the courthouse by fire.

In February 1853, Dr. John Homer Mattox and his relatives moved from their former home on the Suwannee River and settled on a tract of land adjacent to the Magnolia stage route. In wave of his intimates name, he called the settlement Homersville. Shortly thereafter the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad improve replaced substitute route, and Mattox’s concurrence was clearly known as “Station No.11”.