Columbia

Columbia (name) is a poetic name for America (in the sense of "European colonies in the New World") and the feminine personification of the United States of America; it has inspired the names of many persons, places, objects, institutions, and companies.

Columbia may also refer to:

Animals

• Columbia pebblesnail, a North American species of gastropod
• Columbia (sheep), an American breed of sheep
• Columbia Spotted Frog
• Columbia Torrent Salamander, a North American species of amphibian

Companies

• Columbia Aircraft
  • Columbia 350, aircraft (now known as Cessna 350)
  • Columbia 400, aircraft (now known as Cessna 400)
• Columbia Airlines, fictional airline from Airport 1975
• Columbia Bicycles of Hartford, Connecticut
  • Columbia Automobile Company of Hartford, Connecticut which operated between 1899 and 1913, originally expanded from the bicycle line
• Columbia Brewery in Canada
• Columbia Broadcasting System, CBS radio and television networks
  • Columbia Artists Management
  • CBS Columbia Square, in Hollywood, California, West Coast home of CBS radio and television
  • Columbia Workshop, a CBS television series in the 1930s-40s
• Columbia Comics
• Columbia Forest Products
• Columbia Games
• Columbia Gas Transmission, a gas pipeline between the U.S. Gulf Coast and the state of New York
• Columbia Industries
• Columbia Management Group
• Columbia Motors of Detroit, Michigan (1917-1924)
• Columbia Pictures
  • Columbia Pictures Television
    • Columbia TriStar Television
• Columbia Records, named for the District of Columbia
  • Columbia Country Classics, a multi-volume set of country music recordings released in 1990 by Legacy Recordings
  • Columbia Graphophone Company
    • Columbia Music Entertainment
  • Columbia Masterworks Records
  • Columbia Symphony Orchestra a former part of the Columbia Records company
  • The Columbia Studio Recordings (1964-1970), a box set of recordings by Simon & Garfunkel
  • The Columbia Years, 1955-1985, a Miles Davis compilation of recordings
  • The Columbia Years 1943–1952: The V-Discs, a set of recordings by Frank Sinatra
  • The Columbia Years 1943-1952: The Complete Recordings, a set of recordings by Frank Sinatra
• Columbia Sportswear, formerly the Columbia Hat Company, named for the Columbia River (vide infra)
• Columbia Sussex
• Columbia University Press, a university press based in New York City and affiliated with Columbia University
• Columbia Yachts

Educational institutions

• Columbia University, New York City
• Columbia University (Oregon), former name of University of Portland
• Columbia College (disambiguation)
• Columbia High School (disambiguation)

Unaccredited institutions of higher education

• Columbia Pacific University
• Columbia State University

Music

• "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean", an American patriotic song
• "Hail, Columbia", an early anthem of the United States and now the official anthem of the Vice President
• "Columbia", a song on the 1994 Oasis album Definitely Maybe
• "Columbia", a song by Paul van Dyk on the 2000 album Out There and Back
• "Columbia", a song on the 2005 album Bloom (Eric Johnson album)
• Columbia Lane - the Last Sessions, an album by Australian country music singer Slim Dusty

Persons

• Al Columbia, American artist, writer and cartoonist
• Columbia, a fictional character in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Columbia Lancaster (1803-1893), a delegate from the Territory of Washington

Places

Columbia River

A large number of places are named for the Columbia River in the Canadian provinces of British Columbia (which is indirectly named for the river), or in the American states of Washington and Oregon. The following may refer to the Columbia River in more than one of those locations:

Columbia River, named for the sailing ship Columbia Rediviva

• Columbia Bar at the mouth of the Columbia River
• Columbia Basin
• Columbia Basin Project
• Columbia District, a pre-1846 historic fur trading district in the Pacific Northwest
• Columbia Falls on the Oregon-Washington border, better known as "Celilo Falls"
• Columbia Gorge AVA, an American Viticultural Area (wine-making region)
• Columbia Plateau (ecoregion)
• Columbia River Basalt Group, a large igneous province that lies beneath portions of Washington, Oregon and Idaho
• Columbia River Gorge
• Columbia River Highway, any of several
• Columbia River Plateau
• Columbia River Treaty
• Columbia Slough in the Oregon floodplain of the Columbia River
• Federal Columbia River Power System
• The Columbia River Collection (Woody Guthrie Album), a box set of recordings by Woody Guthrie
  • "Roll on Columbia", a 1941 popular song by Woody Guthrie about the Columbia River

Oregon

• Air Columbia Heliport, a private facility in Hood River County
• Columbia Aviation Heliport in Marion County
• Columbia Christian Schools, Portland
• Columbia Gorge casino
• Columbia Gorge Community College in The Dalles
• Columbia Gorge Regional Airport, in The Dalles
• Columbia Helicopters, based in Aurora, Oregon
  • Columbia Helicopters Heliport, a private heliport
• Columbia Memorial Hospital Heliport in Astoria
• Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria
• Columbia Sportswear, headquartered in Portland
  • Team Columbia, a professional cycling team
• East Columbia, Portland, Oregon, a neighborhood
• Historic Columbia River Highway
• Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles
  • Mid-Columbia Medical Center Heliport in The Dalles

Named for the Columbia River in Washington

• Camp Columbia (Hanford), a 1940s-era prison camp along the Yakima River
• Cascade and Columbia River Railroad
• Columbia and Cowlitz Railway, a privately owned timber railway
• Columbia Basin College in Pasco
• Columbia Basin Herald, a small local newspaper in central Washington
• Columbia Center Mall, a shopping mall in Kennewick
• Columbia County, Washington
• Columbia Generating Station, of the United States Department of Energy Hanford Site
• Columbia High School (White Salmon, Washington), on the Columbia River
• Columbia Hills (Washington) a state park and area of scenic hills near the Columbia River
• Columbia Plateau Trail in eastern Washington
• Columbia River Exhibition of History, Science, and Technology in Richland
• Columbia River High School, Vancouver
• Columbia River Washington Temple, a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in Richland
• Columbia Valley AVA, an American Viticultural Area
• Columbia Winery, Yakima Valley
• Fort Columbia, state park
• Lower Columbia College, Longview
• Sinkiuse-Columbia Native American tribe
  • Columbia-Moses language, a Native American language
• Upper Columbia Academy, Spangle
• Upper Columbia United Tribes, describing certain Native American peoples near the Columbia River

Places in Canada

• Cape Columbia, the northernmost land point in Canada
• Columbia College (Calgary, Canada), including various professional programs in addition to academic upgrading & language programs
• Columbia College of Vancouver, Canada, a two-year liberal arts college in Vancouver, British Columbia

Named for the Columbia River in British Columbia and Alberta

Geography

• Columbia Country, referring to the upper basin of the Columbia River above the Arrow Lakes, including:
• Columbia Valley, the uppermost basin of the Columbia River, from Columbia Lake to the town of Golden
• Columbia Valley Rockies, a junior league ice hockey club in Invermere, British Columbia
• Columbia Wetlands a Canadian Wildlife Service preserve in the Columbia Valley
• Columbia Lake, the source of the Columbia River
• Columbia Lake Provincial Park, British Columbia
• Columbia Mountains, a group of mountain ranges in British Columbia
• Columbia Icefield, on the Continental Divide and boundary between Alberta and British Columbia
• Mount Columbia (Alberta)
• British Columbia; for related uses see British Columbia (disambiguation)

Politics

• Columbia (electoral district) in British Columbia
• Columbia-Revelstoke, a historic electoral district in British Columbia
• Columbia Park Elementary School, Revelstoke, British Columbia
• Columbia Power Corporation, Canada
• Columbia River (electoral district), an electoral district in British Columbia
• Columbia River-Revelstoke, an electoral district in British Columbia
• Columbia-Shuswap Regional District
  • Columbia-Shuswap C, British Columbia, an electoral district
  • Columbia-Shuswap D, British Columbia, an electoral district
• Columbia Basin Trust, an organization for the stewardship and management of the Columbia Basin

Miscellanea

• Columbia Bible College (Abbotsford, British Columbia)
• Columbia Station, a station on the SkyTrain in New Westminster, British Columbia, named for Columbia Street in that city
• Columbia and Kootenay Railway, a historic railway in British Columbia

Places in the United States

Alabama

• Columbia, Alabama
• Columbia Southern University, Orange Beach

Alaska

• Columbia Glacier (Alaska), named for Columbia University

Arkansas

• Columbia County, Arkansas
• Columbia Township, Randolph County, Arkansas

California

• Columbia, California
  • Columbia Airport (California) (FAA: O22)
  • Columbia State Historic Park
• Columbia Carousel, Santa Clara
• Columbia College (California), a community college in the California Community Colleges system in Sonora
• Columbia College Hollywood, a film school in Los Angeles
• Columbia Elementary School District, Redding
• Columbia Pacific University
• Columbia, San Diego, California, a neighborhood
• Columbia State University
• North Columbia, California

Colorado

• Columbia Point, a mountain peak named for the Space Shuttle Columbia
• Mount Columbia (Colorado), named for Columbia University

Connecticut

• Columbia, Connecticut
  • Columbia Turnpike (Connecticut), now mainly Route 66

District of Columbia

(see also List of District of Columbia-related topics)

• District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.)
  • Columbia Country Club in Chevy Chase, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C.
  • Columbia Heights, Washington, D.C.
    • Columbia Heights (Washington Metro), a station on the Washington Metro serving the above neighborhood
  • Columbia Island (District of Columbia)
  • Columbia Railway, a historic Washington, D.C. streetcar company
  • Columbia Records (see section above)
  • Columbia Hospital for Women, Washington, D.C.
  • Columbia Pike (Virginia), State Route 244 in Fairfax and Arlington Counties, just outside Washington, D.C.
  • Columbia Union College in Takoma Park, Maryland, a D.C. suburb

Florida

• Columbia County, Florida
  • Columbia County High School, Lakeland
  • Columbia High School (Lake City, Florida)
• Columbia Restaurant, Tampa, the oldest Spanish restaurant in the U.S.

Georgia

• Avondale Mall, formerly Columbia Mall, in Decatur, demolished in 2007
• Columbia County, Georgia
  • Columbia County School System
  • Columbia Middle School in Grovetown

Idaho

• Columbia High School (Nampa, Idaho)

Illinois

• Columbia Carousel, Gurnee
• Columbia College Chicago, a large arts and communications college
  • The Columbia Chronicle, student newspaper
• Columbia, Illinois
  • Columbia Community Unit School District 4
  • Columbia High School (Columbia, Illinois)

Indiana

• Columbia, Indiana, former name of Romney, Indiana
• Columbia, Fayette County, Indiana
• Columbia City, Indiana
  • Columbia City High School
• Columbia Township, Dubois County, Indiana
• Columbia Township, Fayette County, Indiana
• Columbia Township, Gibson County, Indiana
• Columbia Township, Jennings County, Indiana
• Columbia Township, Whitley County, Indiana

Iowa

• Columbia, Iowa
• Columbia Township, Tama County, Iowa
• Columbia Township, Wapello County, Iowa

Kansas

• Columbia Township, Ellsworth County, Kansas

Kentucky

• Columbia, Kentucky
• Columbia Building (Louisville, Kentucky)

Louisiana

• Columbia, Louisiana

Maine

• Columbia, Maine
• Columbia Falls, Maine

Maryland

• Columbia, Maryland
  • Columbia Concert Band
  • Columbia Data Products
  • Columbia Pike (Maryland), U.S. Route 29 from White Oak to Ellicott City
  • Mall in Columbia
• Columbia Air Center, a historic airfield in Prince George's County
• Columbia Country Club in Chevy Chase
• Columbia Union College in Takoma Park

Massachusetts

• Columbia Point (Boston), a former name of Harbor Point in Dorchester

Michigan

• Columbia Center (Troy), a pair of office towers
• Columbia Township, Jackson County, Michigan
  • Lake Columbia
• Columbia Township, Tuscola County, Michigan
• Columbia Township, Van Buren County, Michigan
• Detroit-Columbia Central Office Building in downtown Detroit

Minnesota

• Columbia Heights, Minnesota
• Columbia Park, Minneapolis, a neighborhood
• Columbia Township, Minnesota

Mississippi

• Columbia, Mississippi
  • Columbia School District (Mississippi)

Missouri

• Columbia, Missouri
  • Columbia Cemetery
  • Columbia College (Columbia, Missouri), a liberal arts college
  • Columbia Cosmopolitan Recreation Area, a regional park
  • Columbia Daily Tribune, a daily newspaper
  • Columbia Independent School
  • Columbia Insurance Group
  • Columbia Missourian, a daily newspaper published by the Missouri School of Journalism
  • The Columbia Mall, a shopping mall
  • Columbia Multisport club, a triathlon club
  • Columbia National Guard Armory
  • Columbia Public Library
  • Columbia Public Schools
  • Columbia Regional Airport (IATA: COU)
  • Columbia Regional Hospital
  • Downtown Columbia, Missouri
  • University of Missouri-Columbia
• Columbia Building, Kansas City, Missouri
• Columbia Township, Boone County, Missouri

Montana

• Columbia Falls, Montana

Nebraska

• Columbia Township, Knox County, Nebraska

New Hampshire

• Columbia, New Hampshire
  • Columbia Bridge (New Hampshire), a covered wooden bridge

New Jersey

• Columbia, New Jersey
  • Portland-Columbia Pedestrian Bridge, a footbridge linking New Jersey and Pennsylvania
  • Portland-Columbia Toll Bridge, a vehicular bridge linking New Jersey and Pennsylvania
• Columbia High School (New Jersey), Maplewood
• Columbia Township, New Jersey (historical)
• Columbia Trail, a rail trail in rural northwestern New Jersey

New York

• Columbia, New York
  • Columbia Center, a hamlet in Columbia, New York
• Columbia, former name for Etna, New York
• Columbia County, New York
  • Columbia County Airport, a small general aviation airport in the Hudson Valley
  • Columbia-Greene Community College
• Columbia High School (New York) — East Greenbush
• Columbia Island (New York)

North Carolina

• Columbia, North Carolina
• Columbia Township, Pender County, North Carolina
• Columbia Township, Randolph County, North Carolina
• Columbia Township, Tyrrell County, North Carolina

North Dakota

• Columbia Mall (Grand Forks), a shopping center
• Columbia Township, Eddy County, North Dakota

Ohio

• Columbia Building, Columbus, Ohio
• Columbia Parkway, an expressway in Cincinnati
• Columbia Station, Ohio
  • Columbia Airport (FAA: 4G8)
  • Columbia High School (Columbia Station, Ohio)
• Columbia Township, Hamilton County, Ohio
• Columbia Township, Lorain County, Ohio
• Columbia Township, Meigs County, Ohio
• Columbia-Tusculum, Cincinnati, the oldest neighborhood in the city
  • Columbia Baptist Cemetery (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Oregon

• Columbia City, Oregon
• Columbia County, Oregon

Pennsylvania

• Columbia, Pennsylvania
  • Columbia Borough School District
  • Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge
• Columbia Cross Roads in Bradford County, Pennsylvania
• Columbia County, Pennsylvania
  • Central Columbia School District
  • Columbia-Montour Area Vocational-Technical School
  • Southern Columbia Area School District, Catawissa
• Columbia Park, a former baseball stadium in Philadelphia, named for Columbia Avenue
• Columbia Park (Altoona) a former baseball field
• Columbia Rolling Mill, a historic ironworks in Uniontown
• Columbia Township, Pennsylvania

South Carolina

• Columbia, South Carolina
  • Columbia (Amtrak station)
  • Columbia Canal
  • Columbia City Jazz Dance Company
  • Columbia City Paper, a tabloid newspaper
  • Columbia College (Columbia, South Carolina), a private women's liberal arts college
  • Columbia Film Society
  • Columbia High School (Columbia, South Carolina)
  • Columbia International University
  • Columbia Metropolitan Airport (FAA: CAE)
  • Columbia Museum of Art
  • Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad, a historic railroad
  • Columbia Owens Downtown Airport
  • Columbia Place Mall
  • Columbia Record, an afternoon daily newspaper
  • Columbia Speedway
  • Columbia South Carolina Temple, an operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Columbia Theological Seminary, formerly in Columbia, now in Decatur, Georgia
• Columbia, SC sports teams:
  • Columbia Blowfish, a minor league baseball team
  • Columbia Heat, a former USISL soccer club
  • Columbia Inferno, a minor league ice hockey team
  • Columbia Mets, a former minor league baseball team
  • Columbia Olde Grey, a rugby union club
  • Columbia Rottweilers, an American Basketball Association team
  • Columbia Stingers, a former National Indoor Football League team
• West Columbia, South Carolina

South Dakota

• Columbia Township, Brown County, South Dakota

Tennessee

• Columbia, Tennessee
  • Battle of Columbia in the United States Civil War
  • Columbia State Community College

Texas

• West Columbia, Texas
  • Columbia-Brazoria Independent School District

Virginia

• Columbia, Virginia
• Columbia Pike (Virginia), State Route 244 in Fairfax and Arlington Counties, just outside Washington, D.C.

Washington

• Columbia Beach, a community in Clinton, Washington
• Columbia Center, the tallest skyscraper in Seattle
• Columbia City, Seattle, Washington
  • Columbia City Station (Link station), a light-rail transit station in Seattle (under construction 2008)
• Columbia Crest, another name for the Chateau Ste. Michelle winery in Woodinville
• Columbia Glacier (Washington)
• Columbia Peak

Wisconsin

• Columbia County, Wisconsin
  • Columbia Correctional Institution, a maximum-security correctional facility
  • Columbia Energy Center, an electrical power station

Places outside North America

• 327 Columbia, an asteroid discovered in 1892
• Camp Columbia, a United States Army post in Australia during World War II
• Columbia Centre in Bracknell, United Kingdom
• Columbia Road Market, an East London street flower market
• Columbia (supercontinent)
• Columbia, Tyne and Wear, a neighborhood in Washington, Tyne and Wear County, United Kingdom

Vehicles

Aircraft

• Columbia, the airplane piloted by Clarence Duncan Chamberlin as the second person to fly solo across the Atlantic

Rail

• Columbia, another name for the 2-4-2 classification of steam locomotives, named for an early locomotive of this type called Columbia

Ships

• Columbia (Arrow Lakes sternwheeler)
• Columbia (barque), 310 tons, 6 guns, in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company on the Columbia River and Pacific Northwest Coast
• Columbia-class cruiser, a group of two protected cruisers used by the United States Navy, 1890-91
• Columbia Rediviva, a privately-owned sloop after which the Columbia River (and by extension British Columbia) is named
  • Sailing Ship Columbia, a themed ride at Disneyland in California, based on the Columbia Rediviva
• Columbia (yacht), any of several America's Cup race winners/contenders
• CSS Columbia, a U.S. Confederate (and later U.S. Navy) ironclad ram during the time of the Civil War
• HMCS Columbia, any of several commissioned vessels of the Canadian Navy
• Lightship Columbia (WLV-604), the first lightship on the Pacific coast of the United States, docked in Astoria, Oregon
• MV Columbia, a large passenger and automobile ferry in the Alaska Marine Highway System fleet
• SS Columbia, a historic excursion steamer docked in Ecorse, Michigan, United States
• SS Columbia Eagle incident, a merchant vessel that fell into mutiny off the coast of Cambodia in 1970
• USS Columbia, any of several ships of the US Navy

Spacecraft

• Columbia, the Command/Service Module for the Apollo 11 mission
• Space Shuttle Columbia, named for the sailing ship Columbia Rediviva
  • Columbia Hills (Mars), a range of low hills inside Gusev crater on Mars, named for the Space Shuttle
  • Columbia: The Tragic Loss, a 2004 documentary about the first Israeli astronaut, Ilan Ramon, who perished in the Columbia space shuttle accident
  • Columbia (supercomputer), named for the Space Shuttle
  • Columbia Point, a mountain peak in Colorado, named for the Space Shuttle
  • Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, a NASA facility in Texas, named for the Space Shuttle

• Columbia, a fictional spaceship in Wally Wood's comic story Dark Side of the Moon, published in 1950
• Columbia, a battlestar (fictional spaceship) from both versions of the Battlestar Galactica TV series
• Columbia (Star Trek), any of three fictional starships in the Star Trek syndication

See also

• Colony of British Columbia
• Colombia (disambiguation)
• Columba (disambiguation)
• Columbiad, a type of large-caliber cannon from the 19th century
• Columbian (disambiguation)
• Columbiana (disambiguation)
• Columbium, former name for the element Niobium
• Columbus (disambiguation)
• Saint Columba
• Saint Columbanus