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Echols County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 4,034.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/13/13101.html )〕 The county seat is Statenville.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Statenville is a disincorporated municipality. Echols and Webster County are the only two counties in Georgia to have no incorporated municipalities. The county was established in 1858 and named in honor of Robert Milner Echols (1798–1847). Echols County is part of the Valdosta, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Echols County has become notable in recent years as it has served as a place of banishment for many of Georgia's criminals. As the Georgia State Constitution forbids banishment beyond the borders of the state, officials instead ban the offender from 158 of Georgia's 159 counties, with Echols remaining as their only option. Few criminals have been documented as actually moving to Echols.〔http://americancityandcounty.com/mag/government_qarural_county_baffled/〕 This is because almost all banished criminals choose to leave the state instead of move to Echols County. 〔http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1144&context=law_lawreview | quote = The majority opinion in Collett did not address the fact that none of the defendants sentenced to 158-county banishment would likely choose to live in Ware or Echols County. The result of the 158- county banishment sentences, while not technically ordering the defendants to leave the state, has been to cause such an exodus to occur. 〕 Banishment, including 158 county banishment, has repeatedly been upheld by Georgia courts. The first case when banishment was upheld was in the 1974 case State v Collett, when the Ga Supreme Court upheld the banishment of a drug dealer from seven counties.〔http://www.leagle.com/decision/1974900232Ga668_1670.xml/STATE%20v.%20COLLETT〕 The most recent time banishment was upheld, in 2011, the Ga Supreme Court ruled it was constitutional to banish David Nathan Thompson (a mentally ill man who was convicted of firing a gun into a home, although nobody was injured) from all but one county in Georgia.〔http://bigstory.ap.org/article/judge-changes-wont-lift-ga-mans-banishment〕 ==Geography== According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (1.4%) is water. The county contains a notable swamp, Whitehead Bay.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.myfishmaps.com/topo-maps/US-fishing-locations/Georgia/Georgia-Swamps/Echols/Pineland/Whitehead-Bay/ )〕 The western half of Echols County is located in the Alapaha River sub-basin of the Suwannee River basin. The eastern half of the county, from well east of Statenville to just west of Fargo, is located in the Upper Suwannee River sub-basin of the same Suwannee River basin.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Georgia Soil and Water Conservation Commission Interactive Mapping Experience )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Echols County, Georgia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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