I'm just loving this Bizjournals article about Columbus being the 15th largest city in the US (with a bullet, as they used to say). Note the last line:

Columbus remains the 15th-largest U.S. city, but with ceaseless growth and 3,500 more residents within a year, it might not stay that way.

An update released this week by the Census Bureau show the city's population reached 733,203 a year ago, making Columbus the fourth-largest city in the Midwest behind Chicago, Detroit and Indianapolis. Columbus trailed 14th-ranked San Francisco by less than 11,000 residents, having added 3,500 residents in the year ended last July.

Columbus' population grew 3.1 percent from April 2000 to July 2006, the third-fastest rate in the Midwest. Only Omaha, Neb., and Wichita, Kan., grew faster, with 7.6 percent and 3.9 percent growth, respectively.

From the 1990 to 2000 census, Columbus' population grew 12.4 percent, the Census Bureau reported.

Since 1830, the population of Columbus has increased in every census, a feat Mayor Michael Coleman said is due in part to economic factors.

"Columbus continues to be among the few growing cities in the entire Midwest because of our stable economy, high quality of life and growing reputation as one of America's best 21st-century cities," Coleman said in a release.

The five largest cities in the Midwest, according to 2006 figures, are Chicago (population 2,833,321), Detroit (871,121), Indianapolis (785,597), Columbus (733,203) and Milwaukee (573,358).

New York remained the largest city in the country, followed by Los Angeles, which took the No. 2 ranking from Chicago in the 1990 census.

Correction:
In an earlier version of this story, Detroit was not included.

They FORGOT Detroit. Now if only the rest of us could manage that.