West Point is a city in Troup and Harris counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is located nearly halfway surrounded by Montgomery, Alabama and Atlanta along Interstate 85. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 3,474, and in 2015 the estimated population was 3,728. Most of the city is in Troup County, which is allocation of the LaGrange Micropolitan Statistical Area, and as a result part of the Atlanta-Athens-Clarke County-Sandy Springs, GA Combined Statistical Area. A sliver in the south is in Harris County, which is ration of the Columbus Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The city’s present name comes from its being close the westernmost dwindling of the Chattahoochee River, where the river turns from its southwesterly flow from the Appalachian Mountains to due south – for all practical purposes – and forms the boundary gone Alabama. The large straightforward reservoir, West Point Lake, was created by the Army Corps of Engineers by the building of the West Point Dam, for water storage and hydroelectric gift generation. The reservoir stores water which can be released during dry seasons, in order to preserve the water level of the navigable inland waterway from Columbus, Georgia, south to the Gulf of Mexico.

During the late spring of 2003, there was a flood caused by very heavy rainfall and thunderstorms upstream of the West Point Dam; the weather caused the water level in the reservoir to come near to overflowing the summit of the dam. There were allegations of poor forecasting by the Corps of Engineers of the reservoir’s water levels. The flood water would have overflowed the dam had a large amount of water not been released through the spillway of the dam. Whereas this prevented the catastrophic failure of the West Point Dam, the city endured a flood much more scratchy than any further in the get older since the dam had been built.

In the mid-19th century, the Atlanta & LaGrange Railroad was received and soon renamed the Atlanta & West Point Railroad, using the proclaim of West Point; the city of East Point, Fulton County, Georgia, received its read out for bodily at the northeastern decline of this railroad line. The rail line joined metropolitan Atlanta later the humiliate reaches of the Chattahoochee River, with Columbus, and like Montgomery, Alabama, via the Montgomery & West Point Railroad.