| Official Name: | Warrenton, Georgia |
| Settlement Type: | City |
| Mapsize: | 250px |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Georgia |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Warren |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 4.98 |
| Area Land Km2: | 4.94 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.04 |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 1.92 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 1.91 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.02 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 1744 |
| Population Density Km2: | 353.09 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 914.53 |
| Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
| Coordinates: | 33.4075°N -82.6628°W |
| Elevation M: | 158 |
| Elevation Ft: | 518 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 30828 |
| Area Code: | 706 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 13-80592[2] |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 0333368[3] |
Warrenton is a city and the county seat of Warren County, Georgia, United States.[4] The population was 1,744 in 2020.
Warrenton was founded in 1797 as seat of Warren County (est. 1793). It was incorporated as a town in 1810 and as a city in 1908.[5] The community was named for American Revolutionary War general Joseph Warren.[6]
On May 2, 1919 a crowd of three hundred white farmers shot to death and burned the corpse of a black farmer, Benny Richards, who was accused of murdering his own ex-wife.[7]
Warrenton is located at (33.407596, -82.662914).[8] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.9sqmi, of which, 1.9sqmi of it is land and 0.52% is water.
| White (non-Hispanic) | 409 | 23.45% | |
| Black or African American (non-Hispanic) | 1,276 | 73.17% | |
| Native American | 2 | 0.11% | |
| Asian | 10 | 0.57% | |
| Other/Mixed | 35 | 2.01% | |
| Hispanic or Latino | 12 | 0.69% |
The Warren County School District holds pre-school to grade twelve, and consists of one elementary school, a middle school, and a high school.[10] (The district has only 2 physical buildings, one for Pre-K and K, the other for 1-12.)The district has 70 full-time teachers and over 894 students.[11]