Columbus, KY

Columbus is a home rule-class city in Hickman County, Kentucky, in the United States. The 2020 census counted 140 residents. The city lies at the western end of the state, less than a mile from the Mississippi River. Columbus-Belmont State Park borders the city to the west. The through line in Columbus is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Columbus makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. Columbus is the oldest town in Kentucky's Jackson Purchase. Columbus was first settled on the Mississippi floodplain in 1804 and known as "Iron Banks" after the site's French name les rivages de fer. Columbus is bordered to the west by Columbus-Belmont State Park, which occupies a bluff rising nearly 200 feet above the river.