Warner Robins Map
Warner Robins is a city in the U.S. state of Georgia, located primarily in Houston County with a small portion in Peach County. The city has its own metropolitan statistical area (Warner Robins metropolitan area). As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 48,804. From 2000 to 2010, the Warner Robins city population growth percentage was 36.4% (or from 48,804 people to 66,588 people).
The city was originally named York and, later, Wellston, which was little more than a train stop for local farmers.{Warner Robins Daily Sun 1987} During World War II, to gain a military base, the town agreed to change its name in honor of Brigadier General Augustine Warner Robins.{Warner Robins Daily Sun 1987} The base was originally an Army Air Corps repair depot named Wellston Army Air Corps Air Depot. {Warner Robins Daily Sun 1987} When the U.S. Air Force was founded in 1947, the base was named Robins Air Force Base; the logistics headquarters was originally named the Warner Robins Air Materiel Area (WRAMA){Warner Robins Daily Sun 1987} and today is called the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center (WR-ALC). The base is the state's largest employer in one location; it has more than 25,000 personnel, mostly civil servants.
Warner Robins survived a direct strike from an F4 tornado on April 30, 1953.
Nearby cities include Perry, Macon, Jeffersonville, Fort Valley, Centerville.