Columbus, IN. Online Offers. Columbus ( /kÉlÊmbÉs/) is a city in and the county seat of Bartholomew County, Indiana, United States. The population was 44,061 at the 2010 census, and the current mayor is Fred Armstrong.
In 1951, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began construction of the New Orleans Mississippi River Floodwall under the Dumaine Street Wharf. Between 1973 and 1992, 15 major sections were built at a cost of $30 million.
Dumaine Street block has become one of New Orleans' most dangerous since Hurricane Katrina. Police and prosecutors dusted off a rarely used state racketeering charge two weeks ago to indict 11 young men in the so-called D-Block Gang who, police say, sold drugs and plotted violence from the 2600 block of Dumaine Street in the 6th Ward.