Warner Robins, Georgia Warner Robins, Georgia Official seal of Warner Robins, Georgia Location in Houston County and the state of Georgia Location in Houston County and the state of Georgia State Georgia Warner Robins is a town/city in the US state of Georgia, positioned in Houston County.
From 2000 to 2010, the Warner Robins town/city population expansion percentage was 36.4% (from 48,804 citizens to 66,588).
Warner Robins is a part of the larger Macon-Warner Robins Combined Statistical Area, with a populace of 417,473.
10 Warner Robins Little Theatre Warner Robins was established in 1942 from the improve of Wellston.
It was titled for General Augustine Warner Robins of the United States Air Force.
Congressman Carl Vinson, Wellston improve leader Charles Bostic "Boss" Watson worked with officials in Macon to make a bid to locate this air depot in Houston County.
He wanted to name this depot with respect to his mentor Augustine Warner Robins, who was called by his middle name, Warner.
So on September 1, 1942, the town was given the new name of Warner Robins. Soon after that, on October 14, 1942, the base was retitled to turn into Warner Robins Army Air Depot.
Robins Air Force Base is not inside the actual town/city limits of the town.
Highway 129 (Georgia state highway 247) separates the base from the city.
Warner Robins is positioned at 32 36 31 N 83 38 17 W (32.608720, 83.638027). It is approximately 100 miles south of Atlanta.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 35.4 square miles (92 km2), of which, 35.1 square miles (91 km2) is territory and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2) (0.82%) is water.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 28.0% under the age of 18, 9.6% from 18 to 24, 31.9% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 10.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
In 2009, Business Week periodical titled Warner Robins the best place in Georgia to raise a family. The ranking was bestowed again for 2010. The Warner Robins Area Chamber was titled one of the top three chambers of commerce in the U.S.
For a chamber in its division in 2009 by the American Chamber of Commerce Executives Association. In 2012, CNN Money titled Warner Robins No.
Warner Robins has a humid subtropical climate (Koppen Cfa).
Warner Robins-area historical tornado activeness is slightly above the state average.
Climate data for Warner Robins, Georgia Museum of Aviation at Robins Air Force Base Warner Robins is home to the Museum of Aviation, which honors the history of military aviation.
It is the second biggest exhibition in the United States Air Force and the fourth most visited exhibition in the Department of Defense. It is also the biggest tourist attraction outside Atlanta in the state of Georgia.
Warner Robins inhabitants claim that in 1958, Claude Lewis, director of the Warner Robins Recreation Department, invented the game of tee-ball.
Lewis wrote rules for the new game and sent rule books out to recreation departments all over the country. In 2006, a field was dedicated and titled for Lewis, "the father of tee-ball", at the Warner Robins American Little League complex. Warner Robins Little League won the 2007 Little League World Series 3 2 against Tokyo, Japan. On December 9, 2008 the Little League International Board of Directors unanimously voted for Warner Robins to turn into the new Southeast Region Headquarters of Little League Baseball and Softball.
Games began to be played in Warner Robins in 2010. The Warner Robins American Little League girls' softball team won the 2009 Little League Softball World Series by defeating Crawford, Texas, making Warner Robins the only Little League to have won both a baseball and a softball title. The Warner Robins American Little League girls' softball team defended their 2009 championship by defeating Burbank, California in the 2010 Little League Softball World Series.
By doing so, Warner Robins became only the fourth Little League program to produce back-to-back championship teams, and the first since Waco, Texas, which had won in 2003 2004. The official motto of Warner Robins is "EDIMGIAFAD", which is an acronym for "Every Day In Middle Georgia Is Armed Forces Appreciation Day".
(originally: Every Day In Middle Georgia Is Air Force Appreciation Day).
View of Robins Air Force Base from Warner Robins Robins Air Force Base is one of the biggest employers in the state of Georgia and directly contributes over 25,000 military, civil service, and contractor jobs to the small-town economy. It has provided economic stability for Warner Robins that has benefited the entire Middle Georgia community.
The town/city of Warner Robins is working on redeveloping and renewing areas that have suffered from urban decay and/or abandonment through neglect and town/city growth.
In May 2009 Warner Robins was listed by the Adversity Index as one of four Georgia metro areas that have had less than nine months of recession over the past fifteen years and have only recently been affected by the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 2009. In June 2011, Warner Robins was listed in Wired periodical as one of 12 small metros/cities that are driving the "Knowledge Economy". Georgia was the only Southeastern state listed, and Warner Robins was one of two Georgia metros/cities ranked (the other one being Hinesville-Ft.
The rankings featured small metros/cities that are luring knowledge workers and company doers and which have both a mostly high median family income and a mostly high percentage of creative workers who drive the economy.
Houston County Hospital was dedicated on July 2, 1960 with 50 beds.
Houston Medical Center is part of the Houston Healthcare system, which serves over 300,000 citizens annually. High school football has long been a storied and jubilated pastime in Warner Robins, with the town/city laying claim to state championships, nationwide championships, college stars and NFL players.
Warner Robins game draws an estimated 21,000 fans and was titled the #3 rivalry in the nation by USA Today in 2006.
Warner Robins High School won two National Championships, in 1976 and 1981.
Northside High School was crowned State Champion in 2006, 2007 and 2014.
Warner Robins Little Theatre Warner Robins Little Theatre playhouse The Warner Robins Little Theatre was established in 1962 as a non-profit improve theatre.
The bands Rehab, Stillwater, Doc Holliday Sugar Creek and Luke's Cabbage Store are based in Warner Robins.
Warner Robins Law Enforcement Center State Court of Houston County The Sun, a section of the Telegraph printed weekly devoted to news in Houston and Peach Counties Houston Home Journal, twice weekly, the legal organ for Houston County Warner Robins ground of Central Georgia Technical College Middle Georgia State College in Warner Robins The portion of Warner Robins in Houston County is served by the Houston County School System.
The portion of the town/city in Peach County is served by Peach County School District. Georgia College & State University Middle Georgia State University Houston County High School Warner Robins High School Veterans High School (in close-by unincorporated Kathleen, Georgia) On April 30, 1953 a F4 tornado with winds over 200 mph hit the town/city and portions of Robins Air Force Base, killing 18 citizens and injuring 300 more.
A viral video from Robins Air Force Base, which was hit by the tornado with moderate damage, showed the winds of the tornado with the siren going off in the background.
The New Georgia Guide.
Warner Robins: The Second 25 Years.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Average Weather for Warner Robins, GA".
"Georgia crowned LLWS champs behind Carriker's 8th-inning jack", ESPN, The Associated Press, August 26, 2007, retrieved December 4, 2009 "Warner Robins, Ga., Selected as Site of New Little League Southeast Region Headquarters".
"Warner Robins team routs Crawford".
"Warner Robins American Little League Repeats as Little League Softball World Series Champions".
Warner Robins American Little League made it back to the Little League Baseball World Series in 2011, going 1 2.
Inside Robins AFB.
Robins Air Force Base.
"Robins Air Force Base, Georgia", Retrieved on 05 July 2014.
"Downtown Redevelopment Plan: Warner Robins, Georgia".
Official Warner Robins town/city website Warner Robins Chamber of Commerce New Georgia Encyclopedia article on Warner Robins Municipalities and communities of Houston County, Georgia, United States Municipalities and communities of Peach County, Georgia, United States State of Georgia
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