39 Facts About Columbus OH

Columbus OH is the county seat of Franklin County; it extends into Delaware and Fairfield counties.

Columbus OH originated as numerous Native American settlements on the banks of the Scioto River.

City of Columbus OH was named after 15th-century Italian explorer Christopher Columbus OH at the city's founding in 1812.

Since the late 20th century, historians have criticized Columbus OH for initiating the European conquest of America and for abuse, enslavement, and subjugation of natives.

Columbus OH persevered, and the village was rebuilt, though somewhat more inland.

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Columbus OH was without direct river or trail connections to other Ohio cities, leading to slow initial growth.

The Columbus OH Consolidated Brewing Company rose to prominence during this time and might have achieved even greater success were it not for the Anti-Saloon League in neighboring Westerville.

Columbus OH earned one of its nicknames, "The Arch City", because of the dozens of wooden arches that spanned High Street at the turn of the 20th century.

Efforts to revitalize downtown Columbus OH have had some success in recent decades, though like most major American cities, some architectural heritage was lost in the process.

In February and March 2020, Columbus OH reported its first official cases of COVID-19 and declared a state of emergency, with all nonessential businesses closed state-wide.

Columbus OH is considered to have relatively flat topography thanks to a large glacier that covered most of Ohio during the Wisconsin Ice Age.

Columbus OH currently has the largest land area of any Ohio city.

Columbus OH has a wide diversity of neighborhoods with different characters, and is thus sometimes known as a "city of neighborhoods".

Columbus OH is within USDA hardiness zone 6a, now 6b bordering on 7a in the 1991 to 2020 normals chart.

Columbus OH is subject to severe weather typical to the Midwestern United States.

Columbus OH has maintained a steady population growth since its establishment.

Columbus OH has been rated as one of the best cities in the country for gays and lesbians to live, and as the most underrated gay city in the country.

Italian Village, a neighborhood near Downtown Columbus OH, has had a prominent Italian American community since the 1890s.

Columbus OH has a generally strong and diverse economy based on education, insurance, banking, fashion, defense, aviation, food, logistics, steel, energy, medical research, health care, hospitality, retail, and technology.

Columbus OH is presently headquartered outside the city in nearby Dublin.

Columbus OH is home to many local-based micro breweries and pubs.

Columbus OH has many notable buildings, including the Ohio Statehouse, the Ohio Judicial Center, and Greater Columbus OH Convention Center, Rhodes State Office Tower, LeVeque Tower, and One Nationwide Plaza.

Columbus OH is home to one of the nation's most competitive intercollegiate programs, the Ohio State Buckeyes of Ohio State University.

Former New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, an Ohio native who studied at Ohio State at one point and who coached in Columbus OH, was an Ohio State football fan and major donor to the university who contributed to the construction of the band facility at the renovated Ohio Stadium, which bears his family's name.

Columbus OH Bullies were two-time champions of the American Football League .

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The Columbus OH Thunderbolts were formed in 1991 for the Arena Football League, and then relocated to Cleveland as the Cleveland Thunderbolts; the Columbus OH Destroyers were the next team of the AFL, playing from 2004 until the league's demise in 2008 and returned for single season in 2019 until the league folded a second time.

City of Columbus OH has focused on reducing its environmental impact and carbon footprint.

Columbus OH is the largest city in the United States that elects its city council at large as opposed to districts.

Columbus OH has a history of governmental and nonprofit support for low-income residents and the homeless.

Poverty and differences in quality of life have grown as well; Columbus OH was noted as the second most economically segregated large metropolitan area in 2015, in a study by the University of Toronto.

Columbus OH is the home of two public colleges: Ohio State University, one of the largest college campuses in the United States, and Columbus OH State Community College.

Private institutions in Columbus OH include Capital University Law School, the Columbus OH College of Art and Design, Fortis College, DeVry University, Ohio Business College, Miami-Jacobs Career College, Ohio Institute of Health Careers, Bradford School and Franklin University, as well as the religious schools Bexley Hall Episcopal Seminary, Mount Carmel College of Nursing, Ohio Dominican University, Pontifical College Josephinum, and Trinity Lutheran Seminary.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus OH operates several parochial elementary and high schools.

In 1858, Frankenberg returned to Columbus OH and established another early kindergarten in the city.

Columbus OH is bisected by two major Interstate Highways: Interstate 70 running east–west, and Interstate 71 running north to roughly southwest.

Columbus OH maintains a widespread municipal bus service called the Central Ohio Transit Authority .

City of Columbus OH has a higher than average percentage of households without a car.

Columbus OH has ten sister cities as designated by Sister Cities International.

Columbus OH established its first sister city relationship in 1955 with Genoa, Italy.