{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Morris |official_name = |settlement_type = Unincorporated community |nickname = |motto =
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<!-- Area/postal codes & others --> |postal_code_type = ZIP codes |postal_code = 39867 |area_code = |blank_name = FIPS code |blank_info = |blank1_name = GNIS feature ID |blank1_info = 332421 |website = |footnotes = }} '''Morris''' (also '''Morris Station''') is an unincorporated community in southeastern Quitman County, Georgia, United States. Its elevation is 249 feet (76 m).<ref>{{gnis|332421}}, Geographic Names Information System, 1979-09-25. Accessed 2007-12-23.</ref> It has a ZIP code of 39867.<ref>[http://www.zipinfo.com/cgi-local/zipsrch.exe?cnty=cnty&zip=39867 Zip Code Lookup]</ref> The community lies a short distance to the south of U.S. Route 82, to the southeast of the city of Georgetown, the county seat of Quitman County.<ref>Rand McNally. ''The Road Atlas '06.'' Chicago: Rand McNally, 2006, p. 29.</ref>
==History== The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Morris as a town in 1911.<ref>{{cite book|title=Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a-pJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1420|year=1911|page=1420}}</ref> The community most likely was named after James Morris, the son of a railroad agent.<ref name="Names">{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/m.pdf | title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=152 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}}</ref> The municipal charter of Morris was repealed in 1995.<ref name="Names" />
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Category:Former municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state) Category:Unincorporated communities in Quitman County, Georgia Category:Unincorporated communities in Georgia (U.S. state) Category:Populated places disestablished in 1995
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