Warner Robins

Warner Robins is a metropolis in the U.S. Country of Georgia, positioned in Houston County inside the primary a part of the kingdom. As of the 2010 census, the city had a complete populace of 66,588. From 2000 to 2010, the Warner Robins town population grew by using 36.4 per cent from 48,804 people to 66,588. Warner Robins is part of the bigger Macon-Warner Robins Combined Statistical Area, with an envisioned 2017 populace of 420,693. Warner Robins Air Depot changed into built in 1942 just outside the town limits. Its expansion has attracted more citizens.

Warner Robins was based in 1942 from the community of Wellston. It turned into named for General Augustine Warner Robins of the United States Air Force. It changed into integrated as a city in 1943 and as a metropolis in 1956. The 1940 census suggests that the network of Wellston was moderately populated and inhabited by and large via farmers and their households. Its most first-rate landmark changed into a prevent on the railroad line. Wellston additionally had a small sawmill and a grocery save.

Peach orchards protected parts of the encircling land. World War II quickly modified this. The War Department made plans to construct an air depot inside the Southeast. With the help of influential U.S. Congressman Carl Vinson, Wellston network chief Charles Bostic "Boss" Watson worked with officials in Macon to make a bid to locate this air depot in Houston County. In June 1941, the U.S. Government usual this provide, which protected 3,108 acres of land.