The city's Mound Street derives its name from a mound that existed by the intersection of Mound and High Streets. Most of Central Ohio's remaining mounds are located outside of Columbus city boundaries, though the Shrum Mound is maintained, now as part of a public park and historic site. Remaining physical evidence of the cultures are their burial mounds and what they contained. and 1700 A.D., the Columbus metropolitan area was a center to indigenous cultures known as the Mound Builders, including the Adena, Hopewell and Fort Ancient peoples. Ancient and early history Shrum Mound, the feature of Campbell Memorial Parkīetween 1000 B.C. Nicknames for the city have included 'the Discovery City', ' Arch City', 'Cap City', ' Cowtown', 'The Biggest Small Town in America' and 'Cbus.' Historyįor a chronological guide, see Timeline of Columbus, Ohio. Amid the George Floyd protests in 2020, several petitions pushed for the city to be renamed. Efforts to remove symbols related to the explorer in the city date to the 1990s. Since the late 20th century, historians have criticized Columbus for initiating the European conquest of America and for abuse, enslavement, and subjugation of natives. Although no reliable history exists as to why Columbus, who had no connection to the city or state of Ohio before the city's founding, was chosen as the name for the city, the book Columbus: The Story of a City indicates a state lawmaker and local resident admired the explorer enough to persuade other lawmakers to name the settlement Columbus. It is the largest city in the world named for the explorer, who sailed to and settled parts of the Americas on behalf of Isabella I of Castile and Spain. The city of Columbus was named after 15th-century Italian explorer Christopher Columbus at the city's founding in 1812. Fortune 500: Cardinal Health, American Electric Power, L Brands, Nationwide, Bread Financial and Huntington Bancshares.įurther information: § Italian-American community and symbols As of 2022, the Greater Columbus area is home to the headquarters of six corporations in the U.S. The metropolitan area is home to the Battelle Memorial Institute, the world's largest private research and development foundation Chemical Abstracts Service, the world's largest clearinghouse of chemical information and the Ohio State University, one of the largest universities in the United States. The city has a diverse economy based on education, government, insurance, banking, defense, aviation, food, clothes, logistics, steel, energy, medical research, health care, hospitality, retail and technology. The 1990s and 2000s saw redevelopment in numerous city neighborhoods, including Downtown. Beginning in the 1950s, Columbus began to experience significant growth it became the largest city in Ohio in land and population by the early 1990s.

Amid steady years of growth and industrialization, the city has experienced numerous floods and recessions. The city assumed the function of state capital in 1816 and county seat in 1824. The city was named for Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. The city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, and laid out to become the state capital. Franklinton, now a city neighborhood, was the first European settlement, laid out in 1797. It had a population of 2,138,926 in 2020, making it the largest metropolitan area entirely in Ohio and 14th-largest city in the U.S.Ĭolumbus originated as numerous Native American settlements on the banks of the Scioto River. It is the core city of the Columbus metropolitan area, which encompasses ten counties in central Ohio. Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County it also extends into Delaware and Fairfield counties. state capital after Phoenix, Arizona and Austin, Texas. With a 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest after Chicago, and the third-most populous U.S. Note that Daylight Saving Time ends on Sunday, 5 November 2023, 02:00, and this is accounted for above. Dates are based on the Gregorian calendar. Time is adjusted for DST when applicable. (See the note below this table for details) Note: hours shift because clocks change backward 1 hour.

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