Columbus, Mississippi Columbus, Mississippi Location of Columbus, Mississippi Location of Columbus, Mississippi Columbus, Mississippi is positioned in the US Columbus, Mississippi - Columbus, Mississippi Columbus is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Lowndes County, Mississippi, United States, positioned primarily east, but also north and northeast of the Tombigbee River, which is also referred to as the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway .
It is approximately 146 miles (235 km) northeast of Jackson, 92 miles (148 km) north of Meridian, 63 miles (101 km) south of Tupelo, 60 miles (97 km) northwest of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and 120 miles (193 km) west of Birmingham, Alabama. The populace was 25,944 at the 2000 census and 23,640 in 2010. The populace in 2012 was estimated to be 23,452. Columbus is the principal town/city of the Columbus Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the larger Columbus-West Point Combined Statistical Area.
Columbus is also part of the region of Mississippi called The Golden Triangle, consisting of Columbus, West Point and Starkville, in the counties of Lowndes, Clay and Oktibbeha.
Postcard of steamer American on Tombigbee River at Columbus, c.
The first record of the site of Columbus in Western history is found in the annals of the explorer Hernando de Soto, who is assumed to have crossed the close-by Tombigbee River on his search for El Dorado.
Columbus was established in 1821.
Columbus came into existence as a result of the failure of a flooded settlement athwart the river, Plymouth, which was established in 1817.
Silas Mc - Bee suggested the name Columbus; in return, a small small-town creek bears Mc - Bee's name. One of the first actions taken by the city's framers was to establish a enhance school; Franklin Academy remains in operation to the present day as Mississippi's first enhance school.
In fact, amid its early post-Mississippi-founding history, the town/city of Columbus itself was still referred to as Columbus, Alabama.
During the American Civil War, Columbus was a hospital town.
However, Columbus also had an arsenal that made gunpowder, handguns and a several cannons.
Because of this, the Union ordered the invasion of Columbus, but was stopped by General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
As a result of Nathan Bedford Forrest preventing the Union Army from reaching Columbus, the Antebellum homes of Columbus were spared from being burned or destroyed, making its compilation second only to Natchez as the most extensive in Mississippi.
During the war, Columbus attorney Jacob H.
After the war, he owned the Columbus Independent journal and served four years representing the precinct in the Mississippi House of Representatives. The mural Out of the Soil was instead of in 1939 for the Columbus postal service by WPA Section of Painting and Sculpture artist Bealah Betterworth. Murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through "the Section" of the U.S.
Columbus has hosted Columbus Air Force Base (CAFB) since World War II.
After a stint in the 1950s and 1960s as a Strategic Air Command (SAC) base (earning Columbus a spot in Soviet Union target lists), CAFB returned to its initial part .
Columbus boasted a number of industries amid the mid-20th century, including the world's biggest toilet seat manufacturer, Sanderson Plumbing Products, and primary mattress, furniture and textile plants.
Columbus is the place of birth of famous playwright Tennessee Williams, author of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire.
Paul's Episcopal Church, is now the welcome center for Columbus (300 Main St., Columbus).
Columbus is also the place of birth of baseball announcer Red Barber; boxing's first three-time world heavyweight champion, Henry Armstrong; modern singer Andrew Wood; the parents of Grammy-award-winning bluegrass musician Alison Krauss; American Idol contestant Jasmine Murray; and bluegrass musician Ruby Jane Smith.
Lenny Fant, award-winning basketball coach at the University of Louisiana at Monroe from 1957 1979, graduated from Lee High School in Columbus but was born in Hamilton, Alabama.
Columbus has made the nationwide news at least three times in recent decades.
On June 12, 1990, a fireworks factory exploded, detonating a blast felt as far as 30 miles away from Columbus.
In November 2002, a tornado hit Columbus and caused more damage to the city, including the Mississippi University for Women. In 2010, Columbus won a Great American Main Street Award from the National Trust by Historic Preservation. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 22.3 square miles (57.8 square kilometers), of which 21.4 square miles (55.5 square kilometers) is territory and 0.9 square miles (2.3 square kilometers) is water.
Large lakes and rivers are nearby, such as the Buttahatchee River in northern Lowndes County that defines the border between Lowndes and Monroe counties; in the middle of the City of Columbus and Lowndes County lies the Luxapallila Creek, and the Tombigbee River with the John C.
Stennis Lock and Dam impounding Columbus Lake.
Columbus is a mostly flat place in the northern part of Lowndes County, as the territory rises for a short reconstructionof time into hills and bluffs, in the southern/eastern part of the county, the territory has rolling hills that quickly turn into flatland floodplains that dominate this county.
Columbus and the encircling areas are listed as an Arbor Day Hardiness Zone 8a (10 F or 12.2 C to 15 F or 9.4 C); note that temperatures in 2010 reached 11 F ( 12 C), but the USDA Hardiness Zones list the region as zone 7b (5 F or 15.0 C to 10 F or 12.2 C). Climate data for Columbus, Mississippi Aerial view of Columbus Columbus' populace has grown steadily since the beginning of the twentieth century.
In 1900, 6,484 citizens lived in Columbus; in 1910, 8,988; in 1920, 10,501; and in 1940, 13,645.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city is 43.62% White, 54.41% African American, 0.10% Native American, 0.56% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.51% from other competitions, and 0.79% from two or more competitions.
Columbus Air Force Base.
Columbus Municipal School District.
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Columbus is home to a state university, the Mississippi University for Women.
The MUW ground is also home to the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, a state-funded school for ted high school juniors and seniors.
The city's enhance high school (under the Columbus Municipal School District) is Columbus High School, positioned in the easterly part of town.
It is the biggest high school in the town/city and fifth biggest in the state, enrolling approximately 1370 students.
Columbus High School was formed by the consolidation of the city's two previous high schools, Stephen D.
Lee High School and Caldwell High School; the schools were consolidated in 1992 and the campuses in 1997.
Columbus is also home to the earliest enhance elementary school in Mississippi, Franklin Academy Elementary, established in 1821.
Lee High School was desegregated in 1970 and received a state award for the high school with the best race relations.
The school went undefeated in football in 1970, which helped unite the student body.
The Lowndes County School District operates three high schools Caledonia, New Hope, and West Lowndes fed by similarly titled elementary and middle schools.
Columbus has a several private schools, including: Columbus Christian Academy, formerly Immanuel Christian School (K-3 through 12) Columbus' town/city newspapers are the daily (except Saturdays) Commercial Dispatch, the weekly (Thursdays) Columbus Packet and the internet-only paper, Real Media (formerly The Real Story).
Two magazines are presented in Columbus: The New Power Magazine, a county-wide urban magazine, and Columbus Fire and Rescue Magazine.
Columbus is also served by tv stations from the Columbus / Tupelo / West Point DMA, ranked No.
Columbus lies on U.S.
Columbus is the easterly end of the Columbus and Greenville Railway; it is also served by the BNSF Railway (on the initial right-of-way of the St.
Columbus Lake, formed by the John C.
The Luxapalila Creek runs through the town, separating East Columbus from Columbus proper (both are inside town/city limits).
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