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CLIMATE

• Average High ......................... 76° F
• Average Low .......................... 52° F
• Sunshine .......................... 223 days
• Rain ............................48.11 inches

Source: Sperling’s Best Places (Warner Robins), U.S.
Climate Data

Warner Robins Farmers Market
at-a-glance

about the Robins Region

Warner Robins is Called “The International City”

The thriving city that is now Warner Robins was once a
small town known as Wellston, which housed 50 residents and
served as a train stop for local farmers in the early 20th century. In the
1930s, the U.S. government entertained the thought of building an Army
Air Corps Depot in metro Atlanta; that is, until Wellston promised to build the
depot cheaper and faster than its urban competitor could. Covering 3,000 acres,
the site was up and running by October 1942, for a whopping $1 expense.

he base was a turning point in force logistics, the town changed its name Centerville, a smaller city
Wellston’s history, increasing from Wellston to Warner Robins in 1943, adjoining Warner Robins, has
the population, reputation, and in 1948 the Wellston Army Air Depot benefited significantly from
and, in a sense, bringing the was renamed Robins Air Force Base. its residential and commercial
T hibernating community to Today, Warner Robins is called “The expansion. The county seat is the city
life. In honor of Brigade General Augustine International City” and entertains a of Perry, approximately 12 miles south
Warner Robins, the father of modern air growing, diverse population and culture. of Warner Robins.

HOUST ON C OUNT Y
By The Numbers POPULATION MEDIAN AGE
31
150,033
MARRIED
POPULATION HOUSTON COUNTY
48.3 % LAND AREA

SQUARE
375.54MILES
AVERAGE MEDIAN HOME
COMMUTE TIME VALUE

WARNER ROBINS PERRY CENTERVILLE 21.1MIN $132,400
73,490 15,457 7,575 Source: U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates 2015, Sperling’s Best Places

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