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Columbia
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city in Mississippi, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Mississippi
- County
- Marion
- Mayor
- Justin McKenzie ( R )
- Total
- 6.76 sq mi (17.50 km )
- Land
- 6.75 sq mi (17.49 km )
- Water
- 0.0039 sq mi (0.01 km )
- Elevation
- 148 ft (45 m)
- Density
- 868/sq mi (335.2/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 28-15340
- Gnis feature id
- 0668715
- Website
- www .cityofcolumbiams .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Columbia
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Marion County
- Population
- 5864
- Area
- 17.503564
- Elevation
- 45
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Capital of
- Marion County
- Official website
- www.cityofcolumbiams.com
- Image
- Marion County Mississippi Courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 2270
- Dialing code
- 601
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- Commons category
- Columbia, Mississippi
- postal code
- 39429
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Columbia, Mississippi
- different from
- Columbia
- water as percent of area
- 0.055
- per capita income
- 16583
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
Columbia is a city in and the county seat of Marion County, Mississippi, United States. Formed six years before Mississippi was admitted to statehood, Columbia was named for Columbia, South Carolina, from which many of the early settlers had migrated. The population was 5,864 as of the 2020 census, down from 6,582 in 2010.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Columbia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.