 muscogee county is a county located on the central western border of the u.s. state of georgia. as of the 2010 census, the population was 189,885. its county seat and only city is columbus, with which it has been a consolidated city-county since the beginning of 1971. muscogee county is part of columbus, ga-al metropolitan statistical area. the only other city in the county was bibb city, which disincorporated in december 2000. fort benning takes up nearly one quarter of the county. the chattahoochee river forms its western border with alabama. ==history== inhabited for thousands of years by varying cultures of indigenous peoples, this area was territory of the historic creek people at the time of european encounter. the land for lee, muscogee, troup, coweta, and carroll counties was ceded by a certain eight chiefs among the creek people in the 1825 treaty of indian springs. the creek nation declared the land cession illegal, because it did not represent the will of the majority of the people. the united states senate did not ratify it.the following year, the us government negotiated another treaty with the creek, by which they ceded nearly as much territory under continued pressure from the state of georgia and us land commissioners. the counties' boundaries were created by the georgia general assembly on june 9, but they were not named until december 14 of 1826. the county was named for the native muscogee or creek people. parts of the then-large county (which went all the way east to the flint river) were later taken to create every other neighboring georgia county, including harris county to the north in 1827."muscogee county history", university of georgia ==geography== according to the [[u.s. census
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