Columbus, Texas
Columbus is a city in and the county seat of Colorado County in southeastern Texas, 74 miles west of Houston. The population was 3,655 as of the 2010 census. It is located on the Colorado River. The Colorado County Courthouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The town motto, coined by James Harbert Wooten, Jr., M.D., is "City of Live Oaks and Live Folks". Columbus is the home of a Santa Claus Museum, based on the collection of... Show more Mary Elizabeth Hopkins.