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West Point is a city mostly in Troup County, with a small portion in Harris County, sitting on the Chattahoochee River at the Alabama state line, roughly halfway between Atlanta and Montgomery, Alabama, along Interstate 85.

The city's name comes from its location near the westernmost point of the Chattahoochee River, where the river turns from a southwesterly flow to due south; before taking the name West Point, the area was known as Miller's Bend.

The 2020 census counted 3,719 residents in West Point, living in 1,421 households.

The Atlanta & West Point Railroad took its name from the city, and Atlanta's East Point was named for being the opposite, northeastern end of that same rail line; the Montgomery-to-West Point segment was completed in 1851.

West Point was the scene of the Battle of West Point on April 16, 1865, fought seven days after Lee's surrender at Appomattox near the end of the Civil War.

For decades West Point was a textile mill town, but the mills closed in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the town fell into steep economic decline.

Kia opened its automobile factory in West Point in 2009 — the company's first plant in North America; announced in 2006 as a $1 billion investment on more than 2,200 acres, it was then the largest plant project in Georgia's history.

The West Point Kia plant has built models including the Sorento, Telluride, K5, and Sportage, and Kia reports that the plant together with nearby suppliers employs about 14,000 people.

The large West Point Lake reservoir just north of the city was created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' West Point Dam, built for water storage, hydroelectric power, and maintaining navigation downstream toward Columbus and the Gulf of Mexico.

In the spring of 2003, extreme rainfall pushed West Point Lake close to overtopping the dam, and emergency spillway releases caused the worst flooding the city had seen since the dam was built.