Columbia, Kentucky Kentucky City of Columbia, Kentucky United States Adair County Courthouse Adair County Courthouse Location of Columbia, Kentucky Location of Columbia, Kentucky County Adair Columbia is a home rule-class town/city just above Russell Creek in Adair County, Kentucky, in the United States.
7.1 Columbia Bypass According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.4 square miles (8.9 km ), all land.
There were 1,554 homeholds out of which 24.8% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 39.9% were married couples living together, 14.5% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 42.5% were non-families.
40.3% of all homeholds were made up of individuals living alone and 22.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 18.0% under the age of 18, 19.1% from 20 to 24, 23.1% from 25 to 44, 19.1% from 45 to 64, and 20.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $22,861, and the median income for a family was $31,344.
Events held in Columbia, Kentucky: The event includes a parade, a beauty pageant, reenactment of the James/Younger Bank of Columbia robbery, 5-K run, pet show, train rides for the kids, kids carnival, face painting, inflatables, live entertainment, food, fun, clowns, choirs, and more.
Columbia Public Schools are part of the Adair County Schools School District. Schools in the precinct include: Adair County Elementary School (pre-school,3rd, 4th, 5th Grade Students from County) Adair County Primary School ( Kindergarten, 1st,& 2nd Grade Students from County) Adair County Middle School (6th, 7th, & 8th Grade Students) Adair County High School (9th-12 Grade Students) Adair County Community Voice, a small-town once weekly journal complete with Public Records knowledge The addition of an interchange with a 2006 ongoing standard of Highway 61 South, Columbia now has two exits on the Parkway.
Exit 49, the initial exit on the parkway, merges onto Highway 55 South (also known as Jamestown Street) bringing drivers through the middle of Columbia.
After years of promises by various governors and other Kentucky officials, assembly began early in May 2007, which culminated in an official ground-breaking ceremony by the former Governor himself on May 15, 2007 near the front of the newly constructed Adair County Elementary School, which faces the direction of the bypass.
The Columbia Bypass was opened to the enhance on October 7, 2008 featuring a traffic light at the intersection of the bypass and North 55 as well as a traffic light at the intersection of South 61.
Vernie Mc - Gaha - Kentucky state senator from Adair County since 1997 Doug Moseley - United Methodist clergyman and a member of the Kentucky State Senate from 1974 to 1987; former Columbia resident Columbia, Kentucky was depicted in the film Resurrection Mary starring Wilford Brimley in 2002.
The film was directed by another Columbia native, Matthew Eric Arnold as part of the USC School of Cinematic Arts graduate thesis program and won awards at the Big Bear Lake International Film Festival.
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Adair County Schools.
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