This is a list of official neighborhoods in

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. 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

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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,

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and the Highlands. An interurban

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in the early 1900s led to communities east of Louisville such as

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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 of

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. Select unincorporated places, most of which were previously considered CDPs (

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s), are: Other unincorporated places include:

Incorporated places

After merger, incorporated places in Jefferson County became a part of

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 in

are officially designated as neighborhoods. * Bowman Field * Fairgrounds *

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(Belknap Campus)

Historic neighborhoods

* Standiford: Bordered

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to the east and the

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to the north, west and south. It was displaced by the expansion of the airport, and it is currently the site for Louisville Air National Guard Base, which was relocated to make room for an expansion of the UPS WorldPort.

References

External links

HomeTownLocator Jefferson County, Kentucky

Kentuckiana Regional Planning and Development Agency

Louisville neighborhood associations listed on Neighborhood Link

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Map of Urban Neighborhoods
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