Waycross
Waycross is the county seat of and only incorporated city in Ware County in the U.S. state of Georgia. The population was 13,942 in the 2020 census. Waycross gets its name from the city's location at key railroad junctions; lines from six directions meet at the city.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 14,600 residents
- Description: city in Ware County, Georgia, United States
- Also known as: “Old Nine”, “Pendleton”, “Station Number 9”, “Tebeauville”, “Way Cross”, “Waycross, GA”, “Waycross, Georgia”, and “Yankee Town”
- Postal codes: 31501-31503
Places of Interest
Highlights include Memorial Stadium.
Memorial Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Mjrmtg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Memorial Stadium is a 12,000-capacity county-owned stadium located in Waycross, Georgia, the largest city in and county seat of Ware County in the southern part of the state.
Waycross
- Categories: city in the United States, municipality of Georgia, and locality
- Location: Ware, Coastal Georgia, Georgia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.2136° or 31° 12′ 49″ northLongitude
-82.354° or 82° 21′ 15″ westPopulation
14,600Elevation
128 feet (39 metres)IATA airport code
AYSUnited Nations Location Code
US AYSOpen location code
863V6J7W+C9OpenStreetMap ID
node 154165916OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
4229763Wikidata ID
Q615027
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Waycross” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وايكروس”
- Basque: “Waycross”
- Catalan: “Waycross”
- Cebuano: “Waycross”
- Chechen: “Вейкросс”
- Chinese: “Waycross”
- Chinese: “韋克羅斯”
- Chinese: “韦克罗斯”
- Dagbani: “Waycross”
- Danish: “Waycross”
- Dutch: “Waycross”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وايكروس”
- Esperanto: “Vojkruco”
- French: “Waycross”
- German: “Waycross”
- Gilaki: “ویکراس (جؤرجيا)”
- Gilaki: “ویکراس”
- Haitian: “Waycross, Georgie”
- Haitian: “Waycross”
- Hungarian: “Waycross”
- Ido: “Waycross, Georgia”
- Ido: “Waycross”
- Irish: “Waycross”
- Italian: “Waycross”
- Japanese: “ウェイクロス”
- Ladin: “Waycross (Georgia (stat American))”
- Ladin: “Waycross)”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Waycross”
- Mazanderani: “ویکراس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Waycross”
- Newari: “वेक्रस (ज्योर्जिया)”
- Newari: “वेक्रस, जर्जिया”
- Newari: “वेक्रस, ज्योर्जिया”
- Newari: “वेक्रस”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Waycross”
- Norwegian: “Waycross”
- Persian: “ویکراس، جورجیا”
- Persian: “ویکراس”
- Polish: “Waycross”
- Portuguese: “Waycross”
- Romanian: “Waycross, Georgia”
- Romanian: “Waycross”
- Russian: “Уэйкросс”
- Serbian: “Вејкрос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Waycross, Georgia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Waycross”
- South Azerbaijani: “ویکراس، جورجیا”
- Spanish: “Waycross”
- Swedish: “Waycross, Georgia”
- Swedish: “Waycross”
- Tatar: “Вейкросс”
- Turkish: “Waycross, Georgia”
- Turkish: “Waycross”
- Ukrainian: “Вейкросс”
- Urdu: “وے کراس، جارجیا”
- Uzbek: “Waycross”
- Volapük: “Waycross”
- Waray (Philippines): “Waycross, Georgia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Waycross”
- Welsh: “Waycross, Georgia”
- Welsh: “Waycross”
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