Grading and excavation service area: Warner Robins and Houston County

Calls and requests from these places go to a local grading pro who works in Houston County:

• Warner Robins. The county's largest city. Known as Wellston until 1942, it took the name of General Augustine Warner Robins when the air depot that became Robins Air Force Base opened that year.
• Perry. The county seat, on I-75 in the middle of the county, best known as home of the Georgia National Fair.
• Centerville. A small city incorporated in 1958, bordered by Warner Robins on the east and south, with Byron to the west.
• The rest of Houston County. Communities such as Bonaire, Kathleen, Elko and Hayneville, and the farms, orchards and homes in between.

Not sure whether you're in the area? Call and ask.

Calls are answered weekdays, 9 to 6. After hours, leave your name, address and what's going on, and you'll get a call back first thing the next business day.

What is the ground like in Houston County?

Houston County lies south of the Fall Line, in Georgia's Coastal Plain, where the land is low and gentle and the soils are sandy. The common upland soils, such as Faceville and Orangeburg, are well drained: sandy loam on top over a sandy clay a foot or so down. Along the creeks and in low spots the story changes. Bibb soils on the creek bottoms and Grady soils in upland depressions hold water near the surface for months of the year.

So the usual jobs here are about giving water a way out of flat ground: regrading a yard,a French drain or dry well for a wet spot, a culvert where a drive meets the road,clearing a lot, or building up a pad for a new home.

Who handles grading permits in Houston County?

Houston County enforces Georgia's land-disturbance rules locally. A permit generally starts at one acre of disturbed ground, or at less when the work is near a year-round stream or part of a bigger development; home gardens and landscaping are exempt. Work in a mapped floodplain needs the county's development permit first, and the county's ordinance sets new homes there at least 36 inches above the base flood elevation (confirm the current rule with the county).

Driveways onto county roads need a county permit, and the county sizes the culvert. Warner Robins runs its own land-disturbance permits and needs the city engineer's OK before work in a city street; inside Perry or Centerville, check with the city too.

Sources: New Georgia Encyclopedia, Fall Line (source); USDA NRCS, Faceville soil series (source); USDA NRCS, Orangeburg soil series (source); USDA NRCS, Bibb soil series (source); USDA NRCS, Grady soil series (source); Houston County, Water Resources Protection Ordinance (2019) (source); Houston County, Water Resources Protection Ordinance, flood rules (full-text copy) (source); Houston County, Access Management and Encroachment Control Manual (source); City of Warner Robins, Engineering (source); Warner Robins Code, Chapter 23, streets (source); Warner Robins, Georgia (source); Perry, Georgia (source); Centerville, Georgia (source).

Last reviewed November 2, 2026.