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Columbus is a home rule-class city in Hickman County, Kentucky, lying less than a mile from the Mississippi River at the western end of the state.

Columbus is the oldest town in Kentucky's Jackson Purchase, first settled on the Mississippi floodplain in 1804 under the name Iron Banks, from the French les rivages de fer.

The town was renamed Columbus in 1820 in honor of Christopher Columbus, the year it received its first post office and was formally established by the state assembly.

Columbus was the original seat of Hickman County before the county court was moved to the more central town of Clinton.

Columbus was formally incorporated in 1860.

In 1861 Confederate forces under General Leonidas Polk fortified the bluffs at Columbus as Fort de Russey and stretched a massive anchor chain across the Mississippi River to block Union river traffic, earning the site the nickname Gibraltar of the West.

The Union response at Belmont, Missouri, in November 1861 was General Ulysses S. Grant's first direct combat of the Civil War.

Columbus-Belmont State Park, created in 1934, borders the city to the west and preserves the Confederate earthworks, surviving links of Polk's river chain, and an antebellum farmhouse that served as a Civil War hospital and is now a museum.

Railroad legend Casey Jones got his first railroad job in Columbus in 1878, working as a telegrapher for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad at age 15.

After the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 destroyed the riverside town, the American Red Cross relocated the entire town of Columbus to the bluff some 200 feet above the river, the first entire town in Kentucky ever moved from one site to another.