Shepherdsville, Kentucky Shepherdsville, Kentucky Location of Shepherdsville, Kentucky Location of Shepherdsville, Kentucky Shepherdsville is a home rule-class town/city on the Salt River in Bullitt County, Kentucky, in the United States.
The region was home to Kentucky's first commercial salt works, although these were shuttered in the 1830s by competition from Virginian works along the Kanawha River. Shepherdsville interval up around the foundry and store erected along the Salt River by Adam Shepherd, who had purchased 900 acres (360 ha) in the area.
The town/city named for him received its charter in 1793 and became the governmental center of county when Bullitt County was formed in 1796. The mineral water supposedly had medicinal properties, so sufferers from a range of maladies visited Shepherdsville to drink and bathe in the water.
During the Civil War, the barns bridge over the Salt River at Shepherdsville was a potential target for sabotage and was guarded by Union troops.
The deadliest train wreck in Kentucky history, which killed about fifty citizens in a two-train collision, took place in Shepherdsville a several days before Christmas in 1917. Throughout most of the 20th century, Shepherdsville was primarily an agricultural area.
With the assembly of the Kentucky Turnpike (now Interstate 65) in the 1950s, citizens who worked in Louisville could live outside the city.
Shepherdsville is positioned on the banks of the Salt River.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Shepherdsville has a total region of 10.0 square miles (25.8 km2), of which 9.7 square miles (25.1 km2) is territory and 0.31 square miles (0.8 km2), or 3.00%, is water. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Shepherdsville has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. In the city, the populace was spread out with 28.9% under the age of 18, 12.2% from 18 to 24, 33.4% from 25 to 44, 17.4% from 45 to 64, and 8.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
Area students attend Bullitt County Public Schools.
Different sections of the town/city are zoned to one of the county's three regular enhance high schools: Most of the town/city is served by Bullitt Central High School, positioned in Shepherdsville proper.
Some northern areas are zoned to North Bullitt High School, which has a Shepherdsville postal address but is positioned in the town/city of Hebron Estates.
Far easterly portions of the town/city are zoned to Bullitt East High School in Mount Washington.
The town/city also homes Riverview High School, the county district's alternative high school for at-risk students.
Kentucky League of Cities.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Shepherdsville city, Kentucky".
"Bullitt County" & "Bullitt's Lick".
Train Wreck Marker installed at the corner of 2nd and Walnut streets in Shepherdsville, Bullitt County "The Bullitt County History Museum: 1917 Train Wreck Book - New Edition".
"Climate Summary for Shepherdsville, Kentucky".
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Shepherdsville, Kentucky.
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