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Warner Robins was founded on September 1, 1942, when the small farming community of Wellston was renamed for Brigadier General Augustine Warner Robins, a logistics pioneer of the U.S. Air Force.

Warner Robins was incorporated as a town in March 1943 and as a city in 1956, growing from a tiny farm community into one of Georgia's largest cities in just a few decades.

The 2020 census counted 80,308 people in Warner Robins, making it Georgia's eleventh-largest incorporated city, and Census QuickFacts counts 31,930 households in 2020-2024 with 2.59 persons per household.

The city spans Houston County and Peach County in Middle Georgia, just south of Macon.

Robins Air Force Base, founded as the Warner Robins Air Depot in October 1942 just east of the city limits, is the largest industrial complex in Georgia, employing more than 25,000 people.

The Museum of Aviation beside Robins Air Force Base is the second-largest museum in the U.S. Air Force museum system, displaying more than 85 historic aircraft across 51 acres and four exhibit buildings.

The Museum of Aviation opened to the public on November 9, 1984, with about 20 aircraft on display in an open field, and admission to the museum remains free.

The Museum of Aviation is also home to the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame, which honors the state's most notable aviators.

Because nearly everything in Warner Robins revolves around the base, the city grew up as a classic American military town whose population surged with every expansion of Robins Air Force Base.

Warner Robins takes its name from a man who never lived there: General Robins is remembered as the father of Air Force logistics, and the air depot built in 1942 was named in his honor.