This article is about the town in Morgan County. For the uptown district in Fulton County, within Atlanta, Georgia, see Buckhead. For the census designated place in Bryan County, Georgia, see Buckhead, Bryan County, Georgia. For other uses, see Buckhead (disambiguation).
The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Buckhead as a town in 1908.[5] According to tradition, Buckhead was named from a pioneer incident when hunters shot a deer and publicly mounted the buck's head onto a tree.[6]
According to the United States Census Bureau, Buckhead has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km2), of which 0.008 square miles (0.02 km2), or 0.99%, are water.[1] The town is drained to the north by tributaries of the Apalachee River and to the south by tributaries of Sugar Creek, both of which flow southeast to the Oconee River.