
Columbus at a glance
What makes Columbus different: Founded in 1823 by Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred colonists, Columbus is Texas's oldest surveyed and platted Anglo-American town and home to the 1886 Stafford Opera House, the only flat-floored opera house still standing in the state.
- Columbus population
- 3,860
- Colorado County Medicare
- 5,830
- MA penetration (county)
- 39%