Louisville neighborhoods

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The fountain at St. James Court in Old Louisville
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 separate settlement), representing the early role of the river as the most important form of commerce and transportation. As the city expanded, peripheral neighborhoods like Butchertown, 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.
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
  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. Douglass Loop
  25. Downtown
  26. Edgewood
  27. Gardiner Lane
  28. Germantown
  29. Hallmark
  30. Hawthorne
  31. Hayfield Dundee
  32. Hazelwood
  33. Highland Park - Defunct
  34. Highlands
  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. Original Highlands
  46. Paristown Pointe
  47. Park DuValle
  48. Park Hill
  49. Parkland
  50. Phoenix Hill
  51. Poplar Level
  52. Portland
  53. Prestonia - Defunct
  54. Rockcreek Lexington Road
  55. Russell
  56. Saint Joseph
  57. Schnitzelburg
  58. Shawnee
  59. Shelby Park
  60. Smoketown
  61. South Louisville
  62. Southland Park
  63. Southside
  64. Standiford - Defunct
  65. Taylor Berry
  66. Tyler Park
  67. Wilder Park
  68. 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 CDPs (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] See also

[edit] External links

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