United States, Georgia, Catoosa County, 34.90366, -85.13825Cooksey, Elizabeth B.2006-01-20Encyclopedia article about Catoosa County, Georgia. Catoosa County, located along the Tennessee border in northwest Georgia, is the state's 100th county. Catoosa was created from parts of Walker and Whitfield counties in 1853 and comprises 162 square miles. According to the 2000 U.S. census, Catoosa County's population was 53,282 (96.4 percent white, 1.3 percent black, and 1.2 percent Hispanic), a 25.5 percent increase from 1990.text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Counties--GeorgiaCatoosa CountyText