Louisville, Kentucky Louisville, Kentucky From top: Louisville downtown horizon at evening, Cathedral of the Assumption, Thunder Over Louisville fireworks amid the Kentucky Derby Festival, Kentucky Derby, Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, Fourth Street Live!, The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts From top: Louisville downtown horizon at evening, Cathedral of the Assumption, Thunder Over Louisville fireworks amid the Kentucky Derby Festival, Kentucky Derby, Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, Fourth Street Live!, The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts Flag of Louisville, Kentucky Flag Official seal of Louisville, Kentucky v l/ loo- -v ll, Listeni/ l v l/ luv- ll or Listeni/ lu .iv l/ loo-ee-vill) is the biggest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 30th-most crowded city in the United States. It is one of two metros/cities in Kentucky designated as first-class, the other being the state's second-largest town/city of Lexington. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County.
Louisville was established in 1778 by George Rogers Clark and is titled after King Louis XVI of France, making Louisville one of the earliest metros/cities west of the Appalachian Mountains.
It was the beginning city of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which interval into a 6,000-mile (9,700 km) fitness athwart 13 states.
Today, the town/city is known as the home of the Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Fried Chicken, the University of Louisville and its Louisville Cardinals athletic teams, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, and three of Kentucky's six Fortune 500 companies. Its chief airport is also the site of United Parcel Service's around the world air hub.
Since 2003, Louisville's borders have been the same as those of Jefferson County because of a city-county consolidation . The official name of this merged city-county government is the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government, abbreviated to Louisville Metro. Even with the consolidation and renaming, the term "Jefferson County" continues to be used in some contexts in reference to Louisville Metro, especially including the incorporated metros/cities outside the "balance" which make up Louisville proper.
Main articles: History of Louisville, Kentucky and Timeline of Louisville, Kentucky The history of Louisville spans hundreds of years, and has been influenced by the area's geography and location.
See also: Louisville, Kentucky, in the American Civil War By 1828, the populace had swelled to 7,000 and Louisville became an incorporated city.
During the Civil War, Louisville was a primary stronghold of Union forces, which kept Kentucky firmly in the Union.
After Reconstruction, returning Confederate veterans largely took political control of the city, dominant to the jibe that Louisville joined the Confederacy after the war was over.
The first Kentucky Derby was held on May 17, 1875, at the Louisville Jockey Club track (later retitled Churchill Downs).
Throughout January 1937, 19.17 inches (48.7 cm) of precipitation fell in Louisville, and by January 27, the Ohio River crested at a record 57.15 feet (17.42 m), almost 30 feet (9.1 m) above flood stage.
Similar to many other older American cities, Louisville began to experience a boss of citizens and businesses to the suburbs in the 1960s and 1970s.
In 1974, a primary (F4) tornado hit Louisville as part of the 1974 Super Outbreak of tornadoes that hit 13 states.
It veiled 21 miles (34 km) and finished a several hundred homes in the Louisville area.
Center and Louisville Slugger Field, conversion of waterfront industrialized sites into Waterfront Park, openings of varied exhibitions (see Museums, arcades and interpretive centers below), and the refurbishing of the former Galleria into the bustling entertainment complex Fourth Street Live!, which opened in 2004.
Main article: Geography of Louisville, Kentucky Louisville and Jefferson County have a combined region of 397.68 square miles (1,030.0 km2), of which 380.46 square miles (985.4 km2) is territory and 17.23 square miles (44.6 km2) (4.33%) is veiled by water. Louisville is southeasterly situated along the border between Kentucky and Indiana, the Ohio River, in north-central Kentucky at the Falls of the Ohio.
Although situated in a Southern state, Louisville is influenced by both Southern and Midwestern culture.
Louisville is positioned in Kentucky's outer Bluegrass region. Its evolution has been influenced by its locale on the Ohio River, which spurred Louisville's expansion from an isolated camp site into a primary shipping port.
The Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN Metropolitan Travel Destination (MSA), the 43rd biggest in the United States, includes the Kentucky county of Jefferson (coterminous with Louisville Metro), plus twelve outlying counties seven in Kentucky and five in Southern Indiana.
Louisville's MSA is encompassed in the Louisville Elizabethtown Madison, KY IN Combined Travel Destination (CSA), which also includes the Elizabethtown, KY MSA, as well as the Madison, IN Micropolitan Statistical Area.
The Louisville region is near a several other urban areas, especially Frankfort, Kentucky (the state's capital), Cincinnati, Ohio (the two cities' urbane statistical areas almost border each other), Lexington, Kentucky, and the Indianapolis, Indiana region (especially Columbus, Indiana, to the north of Southern Indiana).
Main article: Cityscape of Louisville, Kentucky See also: Downtown Louisville; Neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky; List of parks in the Louisville urbane area; and List of tallest buildings in Louisville The downtown company precinct of Louisville is positioned immediately south of the Ohio River and southeast of the Falls of the Ohio.
Center was completed. Twelve of the 15 buildings in Kentucky over 300 feet (91 m) are positioned in downtown Louisville.
Louisville's late 19th- and early 20th-century evolution was spurred by three large suburban parks assembled at the edges of the town/city in 1890.
The Old Louisville neighborhood is the biggest historic preservation precinct solely featuring Victorian homes and buildings in the United States; it is also the third-largest such precinct overall.
The buildings of West Main Street in downtown Louisville have the biggest compilation of cast iron facades of anywhere outside of New York's So - Ho district. Broadway and 3rd Street in downtown Louisville In 2003, Bill Dakan, a University of Louisville geography professor, said that the West End, west of 7th Street and north of Algonquin Parkway, is "a euphemism for the African American part of town" although he points out that this belief is not entirely true, and most African Americans no longer live in areas where more than 80% of inhabitants are black.
According to the Greater Louisville Association of Realtors, the region with the lowest median home revenue price is west of Interstate 65, in the West and South Ends, the middle range of home revenue prices are between Interstates 64 and 65 in the South and East Ends, and the highest median home revenue price are north of Interstate 64 in the East End. Immigrants from Southeast Asia tend to settle in the South End, while immigrants from Eastern Europe settle in the East End. July is the average hottest month with a mean of 79.3 F (26.3 C). The highest recorded temperature was 107 F (42 C), which last occurred on July 14, 1936, and the lowest recorded temperature was 22 F ( 30 C) on January 19, 1994. In 2012, Louisville had the fourth-hottest summer on record, with the temperature rising up to 106 F (41 C) in July and the June all-time monthly record high temperature being broken on two consecutive days. As the town/city exemplifies the urban heat island effect, temperatures in commercial areas and in the industrialized areas along interstates are often higher than in the suburbs, often as much as 5 F (2.8 C).
Climate data for Louisville International Airport, Kentucky (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1872 present) Unless otherwise noted, all demographics refer to the merged Louisville Metro, including the separately incorporated metros/cities inside it.
As of the 2010 census, Louisville Metro held a populace of 741,096, while the "balance" region of Louisville proper encompassed 597,337. Due to the city-county consolidation in 2003, the city's populace had greatly period from the premerger region of Louisville, which held only 245,315 citizens in 2007.
Louisville is the biggest city in Kentucky, with 17.1% of the state's total populace as of 2010; the balance's percentage was 13.8%. In 2010, over one-third of the populace growth in Kentucky was in Louisville's CSA counties. The 2007 demographic breakdown for the entire Louisville Metro region was 74.8% White (71.7% non-Hispanic), 22.2% Black, 0.6% American Indian, 2.0% Asian, 0.1% Hawaiian or Pacific islander, 1.4% other, and 1.6% multiracial.
During the same year, the region of premerger Louisville consisted 60.1% White, 35.2% African American, 1.9% Asian, 0.2% American Indian, and 3.0% other, with 2.4% identified as Hispanic of any race.
Main article: Religion in Louisville, Kentucky The 135,421 Roman Catholic Louisvillians are part of the Archdiocese of Louisville, covering 24 counties in central Kentucky, and consisting of 121 churches and missions spread over 8,124 square miles (21,040 km2). The Cathedral of the Assumption in downtown Louisville is the seat of the Archdiocese of Louisville.
Bellarmine University and Spalding University in Louisville are affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church.
One in three Louisvillians is Southern Baptist, belonging to one of 147 small-town congregations. This denomination increased in number when large numbers of citizens moved into Louisville in the early 20th century from non-urban Kentucky and Tennessee to work in the city's factories; some of these migrants also formed Holiness and Pentecostal churches and Churches of Christ.
German immigrants in the 19th century brought not only a large Catholic population, but also the Lutheran and Evangelical faiths, which are represented today in Louisville by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, and the United Church of Christ, in the order given.
The town/city is home to a several theological institutions: the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville Bible College, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and the denominational command posts of the Presbyterian Church (USA).
Most Jewish families emigrated from Eastern Europe at the start of the 20th century; around 800 Soviet Jews have moved to Louisville since 1991. Jewish immigrants established Jewish Hospital in what was once the center of the city's Jewish district.
A momentous focal point for Louisville's Jewish improve is positioned near Bowman Field, where there are two Orthodox Jewish churchs (including Anshei Sfard, established in 1893), the Jewish Community Center, Jewish Family and Career Services, and an affordable housing complex.
Main article: Economy of Louisville, Kentucky See also: Greater Louisville Inc.; Keep Louisville Weird; and List of primary employers in Louisville, Kentucky Its strategic locale at the Falls of the Ohio, and its unique position in the central United States (within one day's road travel to 60% of the metros/cities in the continental U.S.) make it a practical locale for the transfer of cargo along its route to other destinations. The Louisville and Portland Canal and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad were meaningful links in water and rail transportation.
Louisville's importance to the shipping trade continues today with the existence of the Worldport global air-freight core for UPS at Louisville International Airport.
Louisville's locale at the crossroads of three primary interstate highways (I-64, I-65, and I-71) also contributes to its modern-day strategic importance to the shipping and cargo industry.
In addition, the Port of Louisville continues Louisville's river shipping existence at Jefferson Riverport International.
As of 2003, Louisville rates as the seventh-largest inland port in the United States. From left to right, BB&T Building, 400 West Market, National City Tower, and the Humana command posts building in downtown Louisville Louisville has emerged as a primary center for the community care and medical sciences industries.
Its grow downtown medical research ground includes a new $88 million rehabilitation center and a community sciences research and commercialization park, that in partnership with the University of Louisville, has flourishing nearly 70 top scientists and researchers. Louisville is also home to Humana, one of the nation's biggest community insurance companies.
Louisville is a momentous center of manufacturing, with two primary Ford plants, and the command posts and primary home appliance factory of GE Appliances (a subsidiary of Haier).
The town/city is also a primary center of the American whiskey industry, with about one-third of all bourbon coming from Louisville. Brown-Forman, one of the primary manufacturers of American whiskey, is headquartered in Louisville and operates a distillery in the Louisville suburb of Shively.
The current major distillery site directed by Heaven Hill, called the Bernheim distillery, is also positioned in Louisville near Brown-Forman's distillery.
Similar to the Kentucky Bourbon Trail that links these central Kentucky locations, Louisville offers tourists its own "Urban Bourbon Trail", where citizens can stop at nearly 20 "area bars and restaurants, all offering at least 50 labels of America's only native spirit." In April 2017, Google Fiber confirmed that Louisville will be wired for its ultrafast network. Meanwhile, since October 2016, AT&T Fiber has been building out its similar service in the town/city as well as neighboring counties in Indiana. Beyond networking, the city, through its enhance private partnership called Code Louisville, recognized by President Barack Obama, is aiding region residents in the learning of software coding skills. Louisville for a long time was also home to the Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company, at its peak one of the biggest manufacturers and wholesale distributors of hardware in the United States, as well as Brown & Williamson, the third-largest business in the tobacco trade before merging with R.
Brown & Williamson, one of the subjects of the tobacco trade scandals of the 1990s, was the focus of The Insider, a 1999 film shot around the Louisville area.
Several primary motion pictures have also been filmed in or near Louisville, including The Insider, Goldfinger, Stripes, Lawn Dogs, Elizabethtown, Demolition Man, and Secretariat.
See also: List of attractions and affairs in the Louisville urbane region 2006 Kentucky Derby Festival Thunder Over Louisville fireworks display as seen from the Kentucky side of the Ohio River Louisville is home to many annual cultural affairs.
The Derby is preceded by a two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival, which starts with the annual Thunder Over Louisville, the biggest annual fireworks display in North America. The Kentucky Derby Festival also features notable affairs such as the Pegasus Parade, The Great Steamboat Race, Great Balloon Race, a combined marathon/mini marathon and about seventy affairs in total.
Usually beginning in late February or early March is the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, an internationally acclaimed new-play festival that lasts approximately six weeks.
On Memorial Day weekend, Louisville hosts the biggest annual Beatles Festival in the world, Abbey Road on the River.
The festival lasts five days and is positioned on the Belvedere in downtown Louisville.
The summer season in Louisville also features a series of cultural affairs such as the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival (commonly called "Shakespeare in Central Park"), held in July of every year and features no-charge Shakespeare plays in Central Park in Old Louisville.
Also in July, the Forecastle Festival draws 35,000 visitors annually to Louisville Waterfront Park in celebration of the best in music, art and surroundingal activism.
The Kentucky State Fair is held every August at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville as well, featuring an array of culture from all areas of Kentucky.
Louisville has blossomed as a booming center for autonomous art, music and business.
A Louisville locale that highlights this scene is Bardstown Road, an region located in the heart of the Highlands.
Although it is only about one mile (1.6 km) long, this strip of Bardstown Road constitutes much of the city's culture and diverse lifestyle, contributing to the unofficial "Keep Louisville Weird" slogan.
In downtown Louisville, 21c Museum Hotel, a hotel that showcases intact art installations and exhibitions throughout its enhance spaces, and features a red penguin on its roof, is, as stated to The New York Times, "an innovative concept with strong execution and prompt and enthusiastic service." Post-grunge band Days of the New, at one time including future breakout pop star Nicole Scherzinger, formed in Louisville in the mid-1990s.
The Louisville music scene reaches a crescendo every July amid the Forecastle Festival, a three-day music, art and surroundingal activism festival taking place at Louisville Waterfront Park.
Especially catering to Louisville's music scene is 91.9 WFPK Radio Louisville, a small-town enhance airways broadcast funded, in part, from small-town listeners.
A enormous baseball bat adorns the outside of Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory in downtown Louisville See also: List of exhibitions in the Louisville urbane region and List of attractions and affairs in the Louisville urbane region The West Main District in downtown Louisville features what is locally known as "Museum Row".
The Muhammad Ali Center opened November 2005 in "Museum Row" and features Louisville native Muhammad Ali's boxing memorabilia.
The SAR opened its National Genealogical Research Library in 2010 along Louisville's Museum Row next door to its nationwide headquarters, with an on-site American Revolutionary War Education Center expected to be instead of soon.
Located adjoining to the University of Louisville, the exhibition features over 12,000 pieces of art in its permanent compilation and hosts traveling exhibitions.
Several small-town history exhibitions can be found in the Louisville area.
There are also a several historical properties and items of interest in the area, including the Belle of Louisville, the earliest Mississippi-style steamboat in operation in the United States.
The United States Marine Hospital of Louisville is considered by the National Park Service to be the best remaining antebellum hospital in the United States. It was designed by Robert Mills, who is best known as the designer of the Washington Monument.
Fort Knox, spread out among Bullitt, Hardin and Meade Counties (two of which are in the Louisville urbane area), is home to the U.S.
The previously mentioned Locust Grove, former home of Louisville Founder George Rogers Clark, portrays life in the early days of the city.
The Louisville region is also home to the Waverly Hills Sanatorium, a turn-of-the-century (20th) hospital that was originally assembled to accommodate tuberculosis patients, and later has been reported and sensationalized to be haunted.
The Kentucky Center in Downtown Louisville Main article: Performing arts in Louisville, Kentucky See also: Theater in Kentucky and List of attractions and affairs in the Louisville urbane region This is also the home of the Louisville Ballet, Louisville Orchestra, Bourbon Baroque, Stage - One Family Theatre, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, which operates the earliest experienced outside Shakespeare festival, and the Kentucky Opera, which is the twelfth earliest opera in the United States.
The Louisville Orchestra was established in 1937 by conductor Robert Whitney and Charles Farnsley, then Mayor of Louisville, and was a world prestige in commissioning and recording intact works for orchestra from the 1950s to 1980s.
The Louisville Orchestra today performs more than 125 concerts per year with a core of salaried musicians and is recognized as a cornerstone of the Louisville arts community.
Actors Theatre of Louisville, is in the city's urban cultural precinct and hosts the Humana Festival of New American Plays each spring.
Theatre 502, Savage Rose Classical Theatre, The Bard's Town Theatre Company, The Liminal Playhouse, Looking For Lilith, Bunbury Theatre Company, Louisville Repertory Theatre, Louisville Improvisors, Pandora Productions, Eve Theatre Company, Squallis Puppeteers and Baby Horse Theatre all curate full seasons of contemporary, classical and experimental work.
The Louisville Palace, the official venue for the Louisville Orchestra, is an ornate theatre in downtown Louisville's so-called theatre district.
Louisville Slugger Field, where the Louisville Bats play.
Main article: Sports in Louisville, Kentucky College sports are prominent in the Louisville area.
The Louisville Cardinals's Freedom Hall averaged sellouts for 10 straight years and the downtown KFC Yum! The Louisville market has ranked first in ratings for the NCAA men's basketball tournament every year since 1999. The Kentucky Wildcats used to play an annual game in Freedom Hall.
The University of Louisville baseball team advanced to the College World Series in Omaha in 2007, 2013, and 2014, as one of the final eight squads to compete for the nationwide championship.
Churchill Downs is home to the Kentucky Derby, the biggest sporting event in the state, as well as the Kentucky Oaks which together cap the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival.
It is also home to David Armstrong Extreme Park (formerly Louisville Extreme Park), which skateboarder Tony Hawk has called one of his top five skate parks. The team plays at Louisville Slugger Field at the edge of the city's downtown.
In 2014 Louisville City FC, a experienced soccer team in the league then known as USL Pro and now as the United Soccer League, was announced.
In its first season, Louisville City was the official reserve side for Orlando City SC while making its debut in Major League Soccer at the same time.
Louisville had two experienced American football squads in the National Football League: the Louisville Breckenridges (or Brecks for short) from 1921 to 1924 and the Louisville Colonels in 1926. Between 1967 and 1976, Louisville was home to the Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association.
Louisville has the added distinct ion of being the only town/city in the world that is the place of birth of four heavyweight boxing champions: Marvin Hart, Muhammad Ali, Jimmy Ellis and Greg Page. Louisville Bats Baseball 2002 International League Louisville Slugger Field Louisville City FC Soccer 2015 United Soccer League Louisville Slugger Field The Louisville Waterfront Park exhibits rolling hills, spacious lawns and walking paths on Louisville's waterfront in the downtown area.
See also: List of parks in the Louisville urbane region and List of attractions and affairs in the Louisville urbane region Louisville Metro has 122 town/city parks covering more than 13,000 acres (53 km2).
The Louisville Waterfront Park is prominently positioned on the banks of the Ohio River near downtown and features large open areas, which often hold no-charge concerts and other festivals.
Other outside points of interest in the Louisville region include Cave Hill Cemetery (the burial locale of Col.
Harland Sanders), Zachary Taylor National Cemetery (the burial locale of President Zachary Taylor), the Louisville Zoo and the Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area.
In evolution is the City of Parks, a universal to problematic a 110-mile (180 km) continuous paved pedestrian and biking trail called the Louisville Loop around Louisville Metro while also adding a large amount of park land.
Current plans call for making approximately 4,000 acres (16 km2) of the Floyds Fork flood plain in easterly Jefferson County into a new park fitness called The Parklands of Floyds Fork, expanding region in the Jefferson Memorial Forest, and adding riverfront territory and wharfs along the Riverwalk and Levee Trail, both instead of segments of the Louisville Loop.
Louisville City Hall in downtown, assembled 1870 1873, is a blend of Italianate styles characteristic of Neo-Renaissance Main article: Government of Louisville, Kentucky See also: List of mayors of Louisville, Kentucky; Louisville Metro Council; and Government of Kentucky On January 6, 2003, Louisville consolidated its government with that of Jefferson County, forming coterminous borders. Louisville was the second and only other town/city in the state to merge with its county since Lexington consolidated with Fayette County in 1974.
Louisville Metro is governed by an executive called the Metro Mayor and a town/city legislature called the Metro Council.
The inhabitants of the semi-independent municipalities inside Louisville Metro are apportioned to districts along with all other county residents.
Before consolidation , under the Kentucky Constitution and statutory law Louisville was designated as a first-class town/city in regard to small-town laws affecting public safety, alcohol beverage control, revenue options, and various other matters; as of 2014, it is the only such designated town/city in the state. The Official Seal of the City of Louisville, no longer used following the consolidation , reflected its history and tradition in the fleur-de-lis representing French aid given amid the Revolutionary War and the thirteen stars signifying the initial colonies.
The new Seal of Louisville Metro retains the fleur-de-lis, but has only two stars, one representing the town/city and the other the county.
Kentucky's 3rd congressional precinct encompasses most of Louisville Metro, and is represented by Rep.
See also: Louisville Metro Police Department, Louisville Metro EMS, Louisville Division of Fire, and Jefferson County Fire Service A Louisville Metro Police cruiser In a 2005 survey, Morgan Quitno Press ranked Louisville as the seventh safest large town/city in the United States. The 2006 version of the survey ranked Louisville eighth. The Louisville Metro Area's overall violent crime rate was 412.6 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2005. The Elizabethtown, Kentucky Metro Area, which is part of Louisville's Combined Statistical Area, was the 17th safest Metro in the U.S. Kentucky has the 5th lowest violent crime rate out of the 50 states. Louisville Metro EMS ambulance The major law enforcement agencies are the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) and the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office (JCSO).
911 emergency medical services are provided by the government as Louisville Metro EMS (LMEMS) which responds to about 100,000 calls for service annually.
Louisville Metro Department of Corrections operates two facilities housing approximately 2,000 inmates.
The only fire department directed by metro government is Louisville Fire & Rescue (formerly Louisville Division of Fire before city-county consolidation in 2003).
Grawemeyer Hall, modeled after the Roman Pantheon, is the University of Louisville's chief administrative building See also: List of schools in Louisville, Kentucky and Louisville Free Public Library There are six four-year universities, the University of Louisville, Bellarmine University, Boyce College, Spalding University, Sullivan University and Simmons College of Kentucky; Louisville Bible College; a two-year improve college, Jefferson Community and Technical College; and a several other company or technical schools such as Spencerian College, Strayer University and Sullivan College of Technology and Design.
The University of Louisville has had notable achievements including a several hand transplants and the world's first self-contained artificial heart transplant. The school's Health Sciences Center in Downtown Louisville is presently adding an expansive medical research market on the city's old Haymarket site, which is projected to add 10,000 high paying jobs inside 10 years.[when?] The newly instead of Medical Office Plaza on the University of Louisville's downtown Health Sciences Campus Two primary graduate-professional schools of religion are also positioned in Louisville.
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, product of a 1901 consolidation of two predecessor schools established at Danville, Kentucky in 1853 and in Louisville in 1893, occupied its present ground on Alta Vista Road in 1963.
Census, of Louisville's populace over 25, 21.3% (the nationwide average is 24%) hold a bachelor's degree or higher and 76.1% (80% nationally) have a high school diploma or equivalent.
The enhance school system, Jefferson County Public Schools, consists of more than 100,000 students in 173 schools. Due to Louisville's large Catholic population, there are 27 Catholic schools in the city.
Main article: Media in Louisville, Kentucky Main article: Transportation in Louisville, Kentucky See also: Roads in Louisville, Kentucky As with most American cities, transit in Louisville is based primarily on automobiles.
Interstates I-64 and I-65 pass through Louisville, and I-71 has its southern end in Louisville.
The Ohio River Bridges Project, a plan under consideration for decades to construct two new interstate bridges over the Ohio River to connect Louisville to Indiana, including a reconfiguration of Spaghetti Junction, began assembly in 2012. One bridge, the Abraham Lincoln Bridge, is positioned downtown beside the existing Kennedy Bridge for relief of I-65 traffic.
The other, titled the Lewis and Clark Bridge, joins I-265 between the portions positioned in southeast Clark County, Indiana and northeast Jefferson County, Kentucky (Louisville Metro). Both bridges and corresponding assembly were rather than in 2016. As with any primary project, there have been detractors and possible alternatives; one grassroots organization, 8664.org, has proposed options for downtown revitalization improvements, and a simpler and less expensive roadway design.
Louisville's chief airport is the centrally positioned Louisville International Airport, whose IATA Airport Code (SDF) reflects its former name of Standiford Field.
Over 3.2 million passengers and over 4.7 billion pounds (2,350,000 t) of cargo pass through the airport each year. It is also the third busiest airport in the United States in terms of cargo traffic, and seventh busiest for such in the world. Furthermore, since Louisville is positioned only around 35 minutes from Fort Knox, the airport is a primary hub for armed services personnel traveling to and from the military installation.
Toonerville II Trolleys provided transit in downtown Louisville up through 2014, before being replaced by Zero - Bus.
The town/city buses serve all parts of downtown Louisville and Jefferson County, as well as Kentucky suburbs in Oldham County, Bullitt County, and the Indiana suburbs of Jeffersonville, Clarksville and New Albany.
Louisville has historically been a primary center for stockyards traffic.
Five primary main lines connect Louisville to the rest of the region.
Two county-wide barns s, the Paducah and Louisville Railway and the Louisville and Indiana Railroad, also serve the city.
With the discontinuance of the stop in Louisville in 2003 for a more northerly route between New York and Chicago, the Kentucky Cardinal no longer serves the city; it is thus the fifth biggest city in the nation with no passenger rail service. Electricity is provided to the Louisville Metro region by Louisville Gas & Electric.
Water is provided by the Louisville Water Company, which provides water to more than 800,000 inhabitants in Louisville as well as parts of Oldham and Bullitt counties.
There are also two water treatment plants serving the Louisville Metro area: The Crescent Hill Treatment Plant and the B.E.
In June 2008, the Louisville Water Company received the "Best of the Best" award from the American Water Works Association, citing it as the best-tasting drinking water in the country. Main article: List of citizens from the Louisville urbane region (At the time, in 1883, the biggest such installation to date.) Also, Louisville had the first library open to African Americans in the South, and medical advances including the first human hand transplant and the first self-contained artificial heart transplant. The distances to each of Louisville's sister metros/cities are represented on this downtown light post.
Louisville has nine sister metros/cities as of 2012: a b c The United States MSA table excludes the San Juan, Puerto Rico MSA which has a higher populace than Louisville.
Louisville's "balance" populace is considered in determining project among metros/cities in the U.S.
Under Kentucky's current classification scheme, which went into effect on January 1, 2015, metros/cities with a mayor alderman form of government are first-class, with the "home rule class" covering all other forms.
Official records for Louisville were kept at the Weather Bureau Office from August 1872 to June 1945, Bowman Field from July 1945 to November 1947, Louisville Int'l from December 1947 to October 1995, the Weather Forecast Office (38.1150 N 85.6450 W) from November 1995 to December 2005, and again at Louisville Int'l since January 2006.
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