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Founded in 1928, the Louisville Regional Airport Authority (LRAA) is an autonomous municipal corporation established by Chapter 77 of the 1928 Public Acts for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Under the provisions of Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 183, the LRAA is responsible for the establishment, ownership, operation, development, and ...
Louisville City Hall in downtown, built 1870–1873, is a blend of Italianate styles characteristic of Neo-Renaissance. The Louisville Metro Council is the city council of Louisville, Kentucky (Louisville Metro). It was formally established in January 2003 upon the merger of the former City of Louisville with Jefferson County and replaced the ...
As the city expanded, peripheral neighborhoods like Butchertown, Phoenix Hill, Russell, Shelby Park, Smoketown and others were developed to house and employ the growing population. The arrival of the streetcar allowed suburbs to be built further out, such as Beechmont, Belknap, Old Louisville, Shawnee and the Highlands.
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. [c][12] Louisville is the historical county seat ...
The history of Louisville, Kentucky, United States, as a city is considered to have started on February 13, 1828, the date of the first city charter.From the time of its first organization as a village, on February 7, 1781, until its incorporation as a city, it was governed by a board of trustees.
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 ...
The Louisville metropolitan area is the 43rd largest [a] metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United States. It had a population of 1,395,855 in 2020 according to the latest official census, and its principal city is Louisville, Kentucky. The metropolitan area was originally formed by the United States Census Bureau in 1950 and consisted ...
At that time a part of Kentucky County, Virginia, the town was chartered in 1780 and named Louisville in honor of King Louis XVI of France. In 2003, the city of Louisville merged with Jefferson County to become Louisville-Jefferson Metro. As of the 2010 census, it is the largest city in the state of Kentucky, the largest on the Ohio River, and ...