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Louisville is a city in Jefferson County, in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is located at the Falls of the Ohio River . Louisville is located in the Southeastern United States at 38°13′31″N 85°44′30″W / 38.225371°N 85.741613°W / 38.225371; -85.741613
Louisville [b] is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 28th-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.
An enlargeable map of the 120 counties of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. ... Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN MSA [2] County 2009 Pop 2000 Pop Change ...
Louisville's Land Development Code dates back to the 1930s when redlining was a new practice and neighborhoods were intentionally segregated by race. Through its 90-year history, the code has been ...
Jefferson County: 111: Louisville: 1780: Kentucky County: Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States (1801–09) 772,144: 385 sq mi (997 km 2) Jessamine County: 113: Nicholasville: 1798: Fayette County: Jessamine Creek, which contains a set of rapids that are the county's most well known natural feature 55,017: 173 sq mi (448 km 2 ...
Oil drilling operations in Los Angeles, 1905. Zoning in Los Angeles is commonly believed to have been first enacted in 1908, although Los Angeles City Council passed the first municipal zoning ordinance in the United States, Ordinance 9774, on July 25, 1904.
Like many older American cities, Louisville has well-defined neighborhoods, many with well over a century of history as a neighborhood. The oldest neighborhoods are the riverside areas of Downtown and Portland (initially a separate settlement), representing the early role of the river as the most important form of commerce and transportation.
The formal name given to the area by the Census Bureau is the Louisville/Jefferson County, Kentucky–Indiana, metropolitan statistical area, though it is regularly referred to as Kentuckiana. It is now the primary MSA of the Louisville/Jefferson County–Elizabethtown, KY-IN Combined Statistical Area , as defined by the United States Bureau of ...