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Louisville City Profile
Official State Website URL- http://www.kentucky.govThere are two hundred and fifty-six thousand, two hundred and thirty-one people living in Louisville, KY, among them fifty-two point seven two percent males and forty-seven point two eight percent females. Good transportation, nice schools and friendly residents. The total number of households is one hundred and eleven thousand, four hundred and fourteen. Median income for a household is twenty-eight thousand, eight hundred and forty-three dollars The city has several beautiful parks suitable for weddings, picnics and other large or small outdoor functions.
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| Nickname: Derby City, River City, Gateway to the South, Falls City, The 'Ville[1] | |||
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| Country | United States | ||
| State | Kentucky | ||
| County | Jefferson | ||
| Government | |||
| - Mayor | Jerry E. Abramson (D) | ||
| Area | |||
| - Total | 399 sq mi (1,032 km²) | ||
| - Land | 385 sq mi (997 km²) | ||
| - Water | 13 sq mi (35 km²) | ||
| Elevation | 466 ft (142 m) | ||
| Population (2006)[2] | |||
| - City | 701,500 (consolidated) 554,496 (balance) | ||
| - Density | 4,124.8/sq mi (1,592.6/km²) | ||
| - Metro | 1,222,216 | ||
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) | ||
| Area code(s) | 502 | ||
| FIPS code | 21-48000 | ||
| GNIS feature ID | 0509453 | ||
| Website: http://www.louisvilleky.gov/ | |||
Louisville (usually pronounced ['luːǝvǝl] ; see Pronunciation below) is Kentucky's largest city. It is ranked as either the 17th or 27th largest city in the United States depending on how the population is calculated (see Nomenclature, population and ranking below). The settlement that became the City of Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark and is named after King Louis XVI of France. Louisville is famous as the home of "The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports": the Kentucky Derby, the widely watched first race of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.
Louisville is situated in north-central Kentucky on the Kentucky-Indiana border at the only natural obstacle in the Ohio River, the Falls of the Ohio. Louisville is the county seat of Jefferson County, and since 2003, the city's borders are coterminous with those of the county due to merger. Because it includes counties in Southern Indiana, the Louisville metropolitan area is regularly referred to as Kentuckiana. A resident of Louisville is referred to as a Louisvillian. Although situated in a Southern state, Louisville is influenced by both Midwestern and Southern culture, and is commonly referred to as either the northernmost Southern city or the southernmost Northern city in the United States.[3][4]
Louisville has been the site of many important innovations through history. Notable residents have included inventor Thomas Edison, the first Jewish Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, boxing legend Muhammad Ali, newscaster Diane Sawyer, writer Hunter S. Thompson, and actor Tom Cruise. Notable events occurring in the city include the first public viewing place of Edison's light bulb, the first library in the U.S. open to African Americans,[5][6] and medical advances including the first human hand transplant,[7] the first self-contained artificial heart transplant,[8] and the development site of the first cervical cancer vaccine.[9]