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Kentucky, a state in the United States, has 418 active cities. [1] The two largest, Louisville and Lexington, are designated "first class" cities. A first class city would normally have a mayor- alderman government, but that does not apply to the merged governments in Louisville and Lexington. All other cities have a different form of ...
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The main article for this category is List of cities in Kentucky; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cities in Kentucky; See also Kentucky and categories Census-designated places in Kentucky, Unincorporated communities in Kentucky
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Before 1750, Kentucky was populated nearly exclusively by Cherokee, Chickasaw, Shawnee and several other tribes of Native Americans [1] See also Pre-Columbian; April 13, 1750 • While leading an expedition for the Loyal Land Company in what is now southeastern Kentucky, Dr. Thomas Walker was the first recorded American of European descent to discover and use coal in Kentucky; [2]
La Grange was founded in 1827 when the Oldham County seat was relocated from Westport at the suggestion of Major William Berry Taylor. The new town was named for Château de la Grange-Bléneau, the French country estate of Gilbert du Motier, the American Revolutionary hero better known as the Marquis de Lafayette, who had visited the area in 1824. [10]
Cities in Caldwell County, Kentucky (1 C, 3 P) Cities in Calloway County, Kentucky (1 C, 2 P) Cities in Campbell County, Kentucky (1 C, 15 P) Cities in Carlisle County, Kentucky (2 P) Cities in Carroll County, Kentucky (1 C, 5 P) Cities in Carter County, Kentucky (2 P)
Lexington is a consolidated city coterminous with and the county seat of Fayette County, Kentucky, United States.As of the 2020 census the city's population was 322,570, making it the second-most populous city in Kentucky (after Louisville), the 14th-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 60th-most populous city in the United States.