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California is a neighborhood in urban Louisville, Kentucky, United States.It is bounded on the north by Broadway, on the east by Ninth Street, on the south by Oak Street, and on the west by Twenty-Sixth Street.
California is located in southeastern Campbell County along the Ohio River. Kentucky Route 8 passes just west of the community, leading northwest (downstream) along the river 23 miles (37 km) to Covington and southeast (upstream) 21 miles (34 km) to Augusta.
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.
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.
Louisville is the largest city in Kentucky, with 17.1% of the state's total population as of 2010; the balance's percentage was 13.8%. [84] Map of racial distribution in Louisville, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people: ⬤ White ⬤ African American ⬤ Asian ⬤ Hispanic ⬤ Other
U.S. Route 42 (US 42) is an east–west United States highway that runs southwest–northeast for 350 miles (560 km) from Louisville, Kentucky to Cleveland, Ohio.The route has several names including Pearl Road from Cleveland to Medina in Northeast Ohio, Reading Road in Cincinnati, Cincinnati and Lebanon Pike in southwestern Ohio and Brownsboro Road in Louisville.
Exit 14 from KY 9/AA Hwy. 194.119: 312.404: KY 1998 south (Pooles Creek Road) / KY 8 east (Industrial Road) Northern terminus of KY-1998. Southern end of KY-8 concurrency. Prior to 2018, KY-1998 continued north along Industrial Road. 194.506: 313.027: KY 2345 north (ML Collins Boulevard) Southern terminus of KY 2345: 194.689: 313.322: KY 3490 ...
This is the only Interstate route in the Louisville area to use the technically correct suffix of Freeway in its formal name, rather than the traditional, but misleading term Expressway. Now connected to I-265 in Indiana via the Lewis and Clark Bridge plus freeway segments on both sides of the Ohio River.