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This is a list of official neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border ...
. 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. 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
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and the Highlands
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. An interurban rail line
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in the early 1900s led to communities east of Louisville such as Anchorage and Glenview becoming year-round homes for the rich. Some of Louisville's very rich also moved to mansions along Alta Vista road, in today's Cherokee-Seneca neighborhood.
Pre-merger
Unincorporated places
After merger, unincorporated census designated places in Jefferson County were considered by many (local media for example) to have become neighborhoods ofLouisville
Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border.
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Select unincorporated places, most of which were previously considered CDPs (census-designated place
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s), are:
Other unincorporated places include:
Incorporated places
After merger, incorporated places in Jefferson County became a part ofLouisville
Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border.
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while retaining their respective small city governments. Most of these small cities are considered neighborhoods of Louisville although the neighborhood boundaries are not necessarily contiguous with the boundaries of the small cities. Listed under St. Matthews are former cities it annexed and thus are now included as its neighborhoods.
Designated as neighborhoods
Some attractions and areas inLouisville
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are officially designated as neighborhoods.
* Bowman Field
* Fairgrounds
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* University of Louisville
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(Belknap Campus)
See also
* Cityscape of Louisville, Kentucky * Geography of Louisville, Kentucky * List of parks in the Louisville metropolitan areaFurther reading
*External links
HomeTownLocator Jefferson County, Kentucky
Kentuckiana Regional Planning and Development Agency
Louisville neighborhood associations listed on Neighborhood Link
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The Courier-Journal
''The Courier-Journal'',
also known as the
''Louisville Courier Journal''
(and informally ''The C-J'' or ''The Courier''),
is the highest circulation newspaper in Kentucky. It is owned by Gannett and billed as "Part of the ''USA Today'' Net ...
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Map of Urban Neighborhoods
( Adobe PDF) {{Louisville, state=expanded