Louisville neighborhoods

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The fountain at St. James Court in Old Louisville
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The fountain at St. James Court in Old Louisville

This is a list of official neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky. 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 seperate settlement), representing the early role of the river as the most important form of commerce and transportation. As the city expanded, peripheral neighborhoods like 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, Old Louisville, Shawnee and the Highlands. An interurban rail line in the early 1900s lead 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.

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[edit] Pre-merger

Percentage of housing units built before 1940. Dark green represents a 53% to 83% concentration, and is seen in the Old Louisville, Highlands, Crescent Hill, Portland and Butchertown neighborhoods. A 30% to 52% concentration (pea green) can be found throughout many other areas inside I-264.
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Percentage of housing units built before 1940. Dark green represents a 53% to 83% concentration, and is seen in the Old Louisville, Highlands, Crescent Hill, Portland and Butchertown neighborhoods. A 30% to 52% concentration (pea green) can be found throughout many other areas inside I-264.
  1. Algonquin
  2. Auburndale
  3. Audubon
  4. Avondale Melbourne Heights
  5. Bashford Manor
  6. Beechmont
  7. Belknap
  8. Bon Air
  9. Bonnycastle
  10. Bradley, Louisville
  11. Brownsboro Zorn
  12. Butchertown
  13. California
  14. Camp Taylor
  15. Cherokee Gardens
  16. Cherokee Seneca
  17. Cherokee Triangle
  18. Chickasaw
  19. Clifton
  20. Clifton Heights
  21. Cloverleaf
  22. Crescent Hill
  23. Deer Park
  24. Downtown
  25. Edgewood
  26. Gardiner Lane
  27. Germantown
  28. Hallmark
  29. Hawthorne
  30. Hayfield Dundee
  31. Hazelwood, Louisville
  32. Highlands (Original Highlands)
  33. Highlands Douglass Loop also called Highlands Douglass
  34. Highland Park - Defunct
  35. Hikes Point
  36. Irish hill
  37. Iroquois
  38. Iroquois Park
  39. Jacobs
  40. Kenwood Hill
  41. Klondike
  42. Limerick
  43. Merriwether
  44. Old Louisville
  45. Paristown Pointe
  46. Park Duvalle
  47. Park Hill
  48. Parkland
  49. Phoenix Hill
  50. Poplar Level
  51. Portland
  52. Prestonia - Defunct
  53. Rockcreek Lexington Road
  54. Russell
  55. Saint Joseph
  56. Schnitzelburg
  57. Shawnee
  58. Shelby Park
  59. Smoketown
  60. South Louisville
  61. Southland Park
  62. Southside
  63. Standiford - Defunct
  64. Taylor Berry
  65. Tyler Park
  66. Wilder Park
  67. Wyandotte also called Oakdale

[edit] Unincorporated places

After merger, unincorporated places in Jefferson County became neighborhoods of Louisville.

Select unincorporated places, which were previously considered CDP's (Census Designated Places), are:

Other unincorporated places include:

[edit] Incorporated places

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

[edit] Designated as neighborhoods

Some attractions and areas in Louisville are officially designated as neighborhoods.

[edit] External links

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