| City: | Reidsville, Georgia |
| Names to Avoid: | Georgia State Penitentiary |
| County: | Tattnall County |
| Timezone: | Eastern (GMT -05:00) |
| Local Time: | 8:18:13 PM |
| Population: | No Population Data |
| Area Code: | 912 |
| Classification: | Unique [Company/Government] |
| Coordinates: | 32.0864, -82.1181 |
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Georgia State Prison, the former main maximum-security facility for the Georgia Department of Corrections, operated under dedicated ZIP code 30499 in Tattnall County, Georgia. Opened in 1938 with $1.5 million in Public Works Administration funding, the facility was considered a model prison designed to replace Georgia's notorious convict camps. It was the first prison to receive American Correctional Association accreditation and housed the state's death row from 1938 until 1980. The facility was the filming location for the 1974 film The Longest Yard starring Burt Reynolds. The prison closed on February 19, 2022, due to aging infrastructure.
Postal records show 11 delivery codes routing to Georgia State Prison facilities on GA Highway 147 near Reidsville. The facility gained national attention in 1960 when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was detained here for several days before pressure from John F. Kennedy's campaign secured his release. With no residential population in Census records, this designation served the correctional facility's mail processing needs. Reidsville is the valid mailing city for historical correspondence.
Buildings registered in the USPS ZIP+4 database with designated codes for direct mail delivery.
ZIP Code 30499 is assigned to a single organization or institution. Detailed business demographics are not published for unique ZIP Codes.
| # Residential Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| # Business Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| Total Delivery Receptacles: | 84Source: USPS |
| Single Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| Multi Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| # of Businesses: | 0Source: CBP |
| 1st Quarter Payroll: | $0Source: CBP |
| Annual Payroll: | $0Source: CBP |
| # of Employees: | 0Source: CBP |
ZIP Code 30499 is located in Tattnall County, Georgia, within the Metropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA ) and Georgia's 12nd Congressional District. This area has a population of 0 people, about 0.00% of whom live in ZIP Code 30499. It covers 0 sq mi of land and a water area of 0 sq mi.
| CBSA Name: | --Source: Census |
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| CBSA Population: | 0Source: Census |
| MSA: | Source: Census |
| Land Area: | --Source: Census |
| Water Area: | --Source: Census |
| Congressional District: | 12Source: USPS |
| Congressional Land Area: | 8185.27 sq miSource: Census |
| PMSA: | Source: Census |
| Intro Date: | < 2004-10Source: ZIP-Codes.com |
| Place FIPS Code: | 1364512Source: Census |
| Place Name: | Reidsville city; GeorgiaSource: Census |
We could not locate which school district 30499 belongs to, but we will update this once new district data is released. There are no public schools nor private schools with a mailing address in this ZIP Code. Listing Nearby schools instead. It also has 6 colleges, universities or post secondary education institutions nearby which would be a short commute to.
Our sources include trusted federal and licensed data from the United States Postal Service, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Geological Survey, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the National Center for Education Statistics, along with proprietary datasets created by ZIP-Codes.com. Data last updated on February 1, 2026.