Overview
Sandy Springs is a newly incorporated city, incorporated in December 2005.
It is a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. Located in Fulton County, Georgia, just
south of Roswell, it is named for the sandy springs that still exist in the city
as a protected historic site. Sandy Springs is Georgia's sixth-largest city, with
an estimated 2006 population of 97,898. It is the second-largest of the three
principal cities of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, Georgia Metropolitan
Statistical Area, which is the main component of the larger Atlanta-Sandy
Springs-Gainesville, Georgia-Alabama (part) Combined Statistical Area.
Elections and formal incorporation
A mayor and six city council members were elected in early November 2005,
and formal incorporation occurred on December 1, making it the third-largest
city ever to incorporate in the U.S. (Centennial, CO, Miami Gardens, FL, and
Spokane Valley, WA, did the same in 2001, February 2003, and March 2003,
respectively, making them first, second, & fourth). The six city council districts
are roughly northwest (along the Chattahoochee River), northeast (north of
Dunwoody), southwest, southeast, east (along Georgia 400), and central.
