Houston Lake (Georgia)
Houston Lake is located approximately ten miles southwest of Warner Robins, Georgia, in central Houston County, Georgia on Mossy Creek. Nearby community The area around Houston Lake has been populated since the mid-1800s. The first dam at the site was constructed to provide water power for milling operations. By the middle of the 20th century, the 150-acre lake had become a center of recreation with an earthen dam. Upper class private homes, a country club, and a golf club were constructed around the lake in later half of the century. These developments cut off public access to the lake until the late 1990s. Flood of 1994 On July 3, 1994, Tropical Storm Alberto (1994) came ashore near Destin, Florida. The storm then drifted into central Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia and stalled for days before drifting westward into Alabama and dissipating. Severe flooding occurred throughout central Georgia. Nearby Macon, Georgia set a single day rainfall record of 10.25 inches. At Perry, Georgia ...
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Houston County, Georgia
Houston County ( ) is a County (United States), county located in the Central Georgia, central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. The estimated 2019 population is 157,863. Its county seat is Perry, Georgia, Perry; the city of Warner Robins, Georgia, Warner Robins is substantially larger in both area and population. The county was created on May 15, 1821, along with 4 other counties in the state, and later reduced in size with the formation of Bibb County, Georgia, Bibb, Crawford County, Georgia, Crawford, Pike County, Georgia, Pike, Macon County, Georgia, Macon, and Peach County, Georgia, Peach counties. It was named after Georgia governor John Houstoun, with the spelling being a common 19th-century variation that later evolved to "Houston". The pronunciation, however, remains to this day "howston." The geographic center of the county was given the name Wattsville, which was later changed to Perry. Houston County is included in the Warner Robins, GA Met ...
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