Columbus, Ohio

Columbus
Columbus
State capital city
	City of Columbus
	Clockwise from top: Downtown and the Scioto Mile, the Ohio Statehouse, Ohio Stadium, The Short North, and McFerson Commons and its Union Station arch
	Flag Seal Wordmark
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	Coordinates: 39°57′44″N 83°00′02″W
Country	United States
State	Ohio
Counties	Franklin, Delaware, Fairfield
Settled	February 14, 1812
Incorporated	February 10, 1816[1]
Named for	Christopher Columbus
Government
• Mayor	Andrew Ginther (D)
• City Council	Members[2]
Area [3]
• State capital city	226.26 sq mi (586.00 km2)
• Land	220.40 sq mi (570.82 km2)
• Water	5.86 sq mi (15.18 km2)
Elevation	902 ft (275 m)
Population (2020)
• State capital city	905,748
• Rank	14th in the United States; 1st in Ohio
• Density	4,109.64/sq mi (1,586.74/km2)
• Urban	1,567,254 (US: 35th)
• Urban density	3,036.4/sq mi (1,172.3/km2)
• Metro [4]	2,138,926 (US: 32nd)
Demonym(s)	Columbusite[5]
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP Codes	Zip Codes[6]
Area codes	614 and 380
FIPS code	39-18000
GNIS feature ID	1080996[7]
Major airports	John Glenn Columbus International Airport, Rickenbacker International Airport
Interstates
Local transportation	Central Ohio Transit Authority
Website	www.columbus.gov

Columbus is the capital city and largest city of the U.S. state of Ohio. It is in the middle of the state. The Ohio State Buckeyes and Columbus Blue Jackets play there. In 2010 there were 787,033 people.[8]

Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city in the United States of America. It is the county seat of Franklin County.[9] The city has expanded and annexed portions of adjoining Delaware County and Fairfield County. It is named for explorer Christopher Columbus. The city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers. It became Ohio's state capital in 1816. The city has a diverse economy based on education, government, insurance, banking, fashion, defense, aviation, food, clothes, logistics, steel, energy, medical research, health care, hospitality, retail, and technology.

Columbus has many technology companies. It has the world's largest private research and development foundation, the Battelle Memorial Institute; CAS, or Chemical Abstracts Service, the world's largest clearinghouse of chemical information; NetJets, the world's largest fractional ownership jet aircraft fleet; and The Ohio State University, the nation's largest campus.[10]

In 2008, MarketWatch named Columbus as the 7th best place to do business in the nation.[11] In 2011, the city had five corporations named to the U.S. Fortune 500 list including Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, American Electric Power, Limited Brands, Momentive Specialty Chemicals, and Big Lots.[12] Major foreign corporations operating or with divisions in the city include Germany-based Siemens and Roxane Laboratories, Finland-based Vaisala, Tomasco Mulciber Inc., and A Y Manufacturing, as well as Switzerland-based ABB Group and Mettler Toledo.

Media

Television stations

Channel	Callsign	Format
4	WCMH-TV	(NBC)
6	WSYX-TV	(ABC)
8	WGCT-CD	(Ind)
10	WBNS-TV	(CBS)
17	WDEM-CD	(Ind)
23	W23BZ-D	(Ind)
28	WTTE	(Fox)
33	WCSN-LD	(Ind)
34	WOSU-TV	(PBS)
48	WCPX-LP	(AZA)
51	WSFJ-TV	(TBN)
53	WWHO	(CW)

References

Assembly, Ohio General (May 22, 1912). "Legislative Manual of the State of Ohio" – via Google Books.
"City Council: Staff Directory". City of Columbus. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
"ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
"2020 Population and Housing State Data". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 22, 2021.
"Things you'll never hear a Columbusite say". News Radio 610 WTVN. April 25, 2014. Archived from the original on October 31, 2014.
"Zip Code Lookup". USPS. Archived from the original on September 3, 2007. Retrieved November 15, 2014.
"US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
"Columbus (city) Quick Facts from the U.S. Census Bureau". Archived from the original on July 10, 2014. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
"Places in Franklin County, OH". Find a County. National Association of Counties. Archived from the original on June 16, 2008. Retrieved April 13, 2010.
"Leader of nation's biggest campus taking on tenure", Andrew Welsh-Huggins. Boston Globe. February 4, 2010. Retrieved September 14, 2010.
Market Watch, Best Places to do business. Retrieved July 26, 2009.
"Fortune 500", CNN Money. 2011. Retrieved June 4, 2011.

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[Manual-1] Assembly, Ohio General (May 22, 1912). "Legislative Manual of the State of Ohio" – via Google Books.

[2] "City Council: Staff Directory". City of Columbus. Retrieved April 17, 2020.

[TigerWebMapServer-3] "ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved September 20, 2022.

[2020Pop-4] "2020 Population and Housing State Data". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 22, 2021.

[Columbusite-5] "Things you'll never hear a Columbusite say". News Radio 610 WTVN. April 25, 2014. Archived from the original on October 31, 2014.

[6] "Zip Code Lookup". USPS. Archived from the original on September 3, 2007. Retrieved November 15, 2014.

[GR3-7] "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved January 31, 2008.

[census10-8] "Columbus (city) Quick Facts from the U.S. Census Bureau". Archived from the original on July 10, 2014. Retrieved November 26, 2011.

[9] "Places in Franklin County, OH". Find a County. National Association of Counties. Archived from the original on June 16, 2008. Retrieved April 13, 2010.

[10] "Leader of nation's biggest campus taking on tenure", Andrew Welsh-Huggins. Boston Globe. February 4, 2010. Retrieved September 14, 2010.

[MW-11] Market Watch, Best Places to do business. Retrieved July 26, 2009.

[Fortune_500-12] "Fortune 500", CNN Money. 2011. Retrieved June 4, 2011.

State of Ohio
Columbus (capital)
Topics	History Geography People Colleges and universities Motto
Society	Demographics Education
Regions	Lake Erie
Largest cities	Akron Canton Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Cuyahoga Falls Dayton Elyria Euclid Hamilton Kettering Lakewood Lorain Mansfield Mentor Middletown Newark Parma Springfield Toledo Youngstown
Counties	Adams Allen Ashland Ashtabula Athens Auglaize Belmont Brown Butler Carroll Champaign Clark Clermont Clinton Columbiana Coshocton Crawford Cuyahoga Darke Defiance Delaware Erie Fairfield Fayette Franklin Fulton Gallia Geauga Greene Guernsey Hamilton Hancock Hardin Harrison Henry Highland Hocking Holmes Huron Jackson Jefferson Knox Lake Lawrence Licking Logan Lorain Lucas Madison Mahoning Marion Medina Meigs Mercer Miami Monroe Montgomery Morgan Morrow Muskingum Noble Ottawa Paulding Perry Pickaway Pike Portage Preble Putnam Richland Ross Sandusky Scioto Seneca Shelby Stark Summit Trumbull Tuscarawas Union Van Wert Vinton Warren Washington Wayne Williams Wood Wyandot

Municipalities and communities of Franklin County, Ohio, United States
County seat: Columbus
Cities	Bexley Canal Winchester‡ Columbus‡ Dublin‡ Gahanna Grandview Heights Grove City Groveport Hilliard New Albany‡ Pickerington‡ Reynoldsburg‡ Upper Arlington Westerville‡ Whitehall Worthington	Map of Ohio highlighting Franklin County
Villages	Brice Harrisburg‡ Lithopolis‡ Lockbourne‡ Marble Cliff Minerva Park Obetz Riverlea Urbancrest Valleyview
Townships	Blendon Brown Clinton Franklin Hamilton Jackson Jefferson Madison Mifflin Norwich Perry Plain Pleasant Prairie Sharon Truro Washington‡
CDPs	Blacklick Estates Darbydale Huber Ridge Lake Darby Lincoln Village
Unincorporated communities	Amlin Blacklick Flint Galloway Georgesville New Rome Oakland
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

All-America City Award Hall of Fame (1949–2021)
Three-time winners	Alexandria, Virginia (1963, 1984, 1985) Allentown, Pennsylvania (1962, 1974, 1975) Asheville, North Carolina (1951, 1969, 1997) Bloomington, Indiana (1958, 1981, 1982) Boston, Massachusetts (1949, 1951, 1962) Cincinnati, Ohio (1949, 1950, 1981) Dayton, Ohio (1951, 1978, 1991) Delray Beach, Florida (1993, 2001, 2017) Edinburg, Texas (1968, 1995, 2000) Fayetteville, North Carolina (1985, 2001, 2011) Fort Worth, Texas (1964, 1993, 2011) Gastonia, North Carolina (1963, 2000, 2010) Grand Rapids, Michigan (1949, 1960, 1981) Hampton, Virginia (1972, 2002, 2014) Hickory, North Carolina (1967, 1987, 2007) Independence, Missouri (1961, 1982, 2001) Laurinburg, North Carolina (1956, 1967, 2003) Louisville, Kentucky (1963, 1995, 2012) Norfolk, Virginia (1959, 2013, 2016) Rochester, New York (1981, 1998, 2020) Seward, Alaska (1963, 1965, 2005) Shreveport, Louisiana (1953, 1980, 1999) Somerville, Massachusetts (1972, 2009, 2015) Spokane, Washington (1975, 2004, 2015) Tacoma, Washington (1956, 1984, 1998)
Four-time winners	Akron, Ohio (1980, 1981, 1995, 2008) Anchorage, Alaska (1956, 1965, 1985, 2002) Baltimore, Maryland (1952, 1977, 1991, 2012) Columbus, Ohio (1958, 1987, 1992, 2006) Fort Wayne, Indiana (1983, 1998, 2009, 2021) Grand Island, Nebraska (1955, 1967, 1981, 1982) New Haven, Connecticut (1958, 1998, 2003, 2008) Peoria, Illinois (1953, 1966, 1989, 2013) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1949, 1951, 1957, 1994) Rockville, Maryland (1954, 1961, 1977, 1979) Toledo, Ohio (1950, 1983, 1984, 1998)
Five-time winners	Cleveland, Ohio (1949, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1993) Dubuque, Iowa (2007, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2019) El Paso, Texas (1969, 2010, 2018, 2020, 2021) Phoenix, Arizona (1950, 1958, 1980, 1989, 2009) Stockton, California (1999, 2004, 2015, 2017, 2018) Tupelo, Mississippi (1967, 1989, 1999, 2011, 2015) Wichita, Kansas (1961, 1993, 1999, 2009, 2019) Worcester, Massachusetts (1949, 1960, 1965, 1981, 2000)
Six-time winners	Des Moines, Iowa (1949, 1977, 1982, 2003, 2010, 2017)
Seven-time winners	Kansas City, Missouri (1950, 1951, 1986, 1994, 2006, 2017, 2021) Roanoke, Virginia (1952, 1979, 1982, 1988, 1996, 2012, 2017) San Antonio, Texas (1949, 1951, 1983, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018)