[3] A subsequent legislative act on February 21, 1856, changed the name to Webster.

[3] On January 1, 2009, the city of Preston and town of Weston gave up their municipal charters and formed a consolidated city-county known as the Unified Government of Webster County.

The southwestern corner of the county is located in the Ichawaynochaway Creek sub-basin of the same ACF River Basin.

A tiny edge of the southwestern border, just south of State Route 520, is located in the Middle Chattahoochee River-Walter F. George Lake sub-basin of the same ACF River Basin.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 2,348 people, 1,140 households, and 724 families residing in the county.