Rincon is a city in Effingham County, Georgia, United States. The 2020 population was 10,934, up from 8,836 at the 2010 census. Rincon is allowance of the Savannah Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Rincon, in the southeast Place of Effingham County, Georgia, was incorporated as a city in 1927. While the dated settlers came to the Place in 1751, the area had little development until the late 19th century.

During the American Civil War, when forces of the Union Army penetrated the South, thousands of slaves escaped from plantations to ensue their lines. Many fell in taking into consideration the forces of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and followed his March to the Sea. Hundreds of fugitive African-Americans drowned during the protest while bothersome to livid Ebenezer Creek near the site of present-day Rincon, outside of Savannah. In 2010 the Georgia Historical Society erected a historical marker virtually this event, as portion of a major project to memorialize little-known events from the Civil War mature and acknowledge African-American sacrifices for freedom.

Rincon’s increase was catalyzed by the coming of the railroad in the 1890s. A rail heritage was built from the Carolinas across the give access line at the Savannah River and southward to Savannah. The say of the city is believed to have been adopted from the Spanish or Mexican name Rincón, after a small but prosperous town in Mexico. (Rincón means “corner”, more specifically an inside corner as one might deliver to a nook, cove, or a more abandoned location.)