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Columbia, Arkansas was a 19th-century boat landing along the Mississippi River located in Chicot County near Helena, Arkansas. Columbia lay in a section of the River known as the Greenville Bends, between between Gaines' Landing and Island 82. Columbia, which lay roughly opposite Greenville, Mississippi, was the county seat of Chicot from 1833 until 1855. The population was 400 in 1860. Cotton from nearby plantations was shipped from the river landing.

USS Exchange was damaged by Confederate artillery near Columbia in June 1864. The settlement was "burned in retaliation" for attacks on U.S. Navy gunboats during the American Civil War. It is believed that the town site was ultimately eroded into the mighty Mississippi. Nothing remains of the settlement today.

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