About The University of Louisville

Louisville (/ˈluːivɪl/ (listen), US: /ˈluːəvəl/ (listen) LOO-ə-vəl, locally /ˈlʊvəl/ (listen)) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border.

Named after King Louis XVI of France, Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark, making it one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachians. With within reach Falls of the Ohio as the deserted major obstruction to river traffic amongst the upper Ohio River and the Gulf of Mexico, the agreement first grew as a portage site. It was the founding city of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which grew into a 6,000-mile (9,700 km) system across 13 states.

Today, the city is known as the house of boxer Muhammad Ali, the Kentucky Derby, KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken), the University of Louisville and its Cardinals, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, and three of Kentucky’s six Fortune 500 companies: Humana, Kindred Healthcare, and Yum! Brands. Muhammad Ali International Airport, Louisville’s main trailer airport, hosts UPS’s worldwide hub.

Since 2003, Louisville’s borders have been the similar as those of Jefferson County, after a city-county merger. The qualified name of this consolidated city-county organization is the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government, abbreviated to Louisville Metro. Despite the mixture and renaming, the term “Jefferson County” continues to be used in some contexts in quotation to Louisville Metro, particularly including the incorporated cities outside the “balance” which make in the works Louisville proper. The city’s sum consolidated population as of the 2019 census estimate was 766,757. However, the balance sum of 617,638 excludes further incorporated places and semiautonomous towns within the county and is the population listed in most sources and national rankings.

The Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) includes Louisville-Jefferson County and 12 surrounding counties, seven in Kentucky and five in Southern Indiana. As of 2019, the MSA had a population of 1,265,108, ranking 46th nationally.