Palmetto is a city located mostly in Fulton County (originally Campbell County) and now partly in Coweta County in the U.S. state of Georgia.

The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Palmetto as a town in 1854.

[4] The community was named after the Palmetto Regiment of the Mexican–American War.

[5] In 2023, Palmetto elected its first female and African American mayor when Teresa Thomas-Smith won the election by 84 votes.

[6] As of the 2020 United States census, there were 5,071 people, 1,950 households, and 1,200 families residing in the city.