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Louisville [b] is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States. [a] [11] By land area, it is the country's 24th-largest city, although by population density, it is the 265th most dense city.
View of Main Street, Louisville, in 1846. The history of Louisville, Kentucky spans nearly two-and-a-half centuries since its founding in the late 18th century. The geology of the Ohio River, with but a single series of rapids midway in its length from the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers to its union with the Mississippi, made it inevitable that a town would grow on the site.
Louisville's part of the valley is located between two plateaus, the karst plateau of Southern Indiana and the Bluegrass plateau of Kentucky, both with an elevation of around 900 feet. Elevations drop off the Indiana plateau very sharply via the Muldraugh Escarpment , whereas the rise in elevation up to the Bluegrass plateau is more gradual.
The fountain at St. James Court in Old Louisville. This is a list of official neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky.Like many older American cities, Louisville has well-defined neighborhoods, many with well over a century of history as a neighborhood.
Louisville City Hall in Downtown Louisville.It houses the offices and chambers of the Mayor of Louisville and the Louisville Metro Council.. The government of Louisville, Kentucky, headquartered at Louisville City Hall in Downtown Louisville, is organized under Chapter 67C of the Kentucky Revised Statutes as a First-Class city in the state of Kentucky.
1978 – Kentucky State Data Center headquartered in Louisville [20] 1981 – Sewer explosions occur in the center of the city. 1982 – Democrat Harvey I. Sloane was elected mayor for the second time.
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Kentucky (US: / k ə n ˈ t ʌ k i / ⓘ, UK: / k ɛ n-/), [5] officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, [c] is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the northeast, Virginia to the east, Tennessee to the south, and Missouri to the west.