Louisville (Kentucky)

History

Geography

Louisville is located at 38°13 ′ 44 ″ NR, 85°44 ′ 58 ″ W. According to the Bureau of the census of the United States, the urban surface of Louisville extends on 1.032 km ², and is more populated 43ème country. It includes/understands the county of Jefferson, twelve other counties of Kentucky and four others of the Indiana of the South.

Its climate is moderate: the summers are hot and wet there. The average temperature of the year of 13°C with one fell from snow of 41 cm and of average precipitations of 1131 Misters the most rainy seasons are spring and the summer. The winter temperatures vary between -3 and 6°C, the estival ones between 19 and 30°C. The highest recorded temperature was of 41° the July 14th 1954, and lowest of -30°C the January 19th 1994 was. However, throughout the year, the temperatures can vary in an important way of the day at the following day. The area is favourable with the Tornade S, large the Orage S and the storms.

With the manner of Los Angeles, the valley of Louisville traps pollution, from where a situation of Smog.

Districts

The Exchange Business District (CBD) of Louisville is located immediately at the south of Ohio and the south-east of the Falls off the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area . The main roads extend from the downtown area towards all the directions, like the radii of a circle. The airport is localized to roughly 10 km of the downtown area. The industrial districts, as for them, are located at the south and the west of the airport, whereas the majority of the residential zones of the city are located in south-west, south and is center. Another district of businesses and important industrialist occupies the suburban area of the east of the city on Hurstbourne Parkway.

Louisville has traditionally was divided into three principal surfaces: West, Is and Southern. In the broad outlines, one can say that the East concentrates the majority of the white and the immigrants in the east of Barstown Road. The West gathers mainly families Afro-Américain are low wages and is located at the west of 7th Street and the north of the Interstate 264. The South shelters the middle-classes, it includes/understands the area located at the south of I-264 and the west of the Interstate 65.

An investigation of 2005 gives to Louisville the seventh rank in the list of the surest big cities of the the United States of America.

Economy

As in the remainder of Kentucky, the economy developed around the Tabac, of the breeding of horses, and the famous teams of baseball. Large companies settled there, in particular:

Brown-Forman Corporation (Fortune 1000)
Hillerich & Bradsby (Known for the beaters of baseball Louisville Slugger)
Humana Inc. (Fortune 500)
Kindred Healthcare Incorporated (Fortune 500)
Norton Healthcare
Dad John' S Pizza pie
Pharmerica
Presbyterian Church (the USA)
Yum! Brands, Inc. (Owners of KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Beautiful, Long John Silver' S and has & W Restaurants; formerly Total Tricon Restaurants, spin-off off PepsiCo) (Fortune 500)

Louisville is a production center of Bourbon.

Government

Since 2003, Louisville and the county of Jefferson amalgamated, giving rise to an agglomeration (Louisville Metro) of 700 030 inhabitants (2004). Louisville is directed by the Democrat Jerry Abramson, called " the mayor with vie". Indeed, it already carried out three consecutive mandates (1985 - 1998) before being elected mayor of the agglomeration this time, in 2003. It seems to have good lucks again carry it with the next elections of 2007. The municipal council is composed of 26 members (one by district, renewable by half every two years).

Culture

The Speed Art Museum, open in 1927, is oldest and largest of the museums of art of Kentucky. Located near the University of Louisville, it gathers 1.200 works in its permanent exposure.

One can find several other museums in the districts hotel and commercial of the downtown area. The International Frazier History Museum , open in 2004, presents a collection of weapons, armours and historical objects of the the United Kingdom and the United States. Louisville Science Center organizes interactive exposures, educational programs and films IMAX.

Media

The principal newspaper is The Courier-Newspaper , but many other weekly magazines serve the area. The principal television channel is WAVE 3, affiliated with NBC. The principal radio station is 84 WHAS.

Parks

Louisville includes/understands 122 parks and public gardens which measure 57 km ² on the whole. Some were conceived by Frederick Law Olmsted, creator of Central Park to New York and of many other parks and campus of the country. The Louisville Waterfront Park is located on banks of the Ohio, close to the center, and often accommodates free concerts and other festivals. Cherokee Park is one of the largest parks of the city: it covers 1,7 km ² and proposes many cycle tracks and sporting surfaces.

Among the other principal parks, one counts the Jefferson Memorail Forest (22 km ²), the largest urban forest of the United States, which offers 50 km of ways for the hikers and Otter Creek Park . The other centers of interest are the Cave Hill Cemetery and Arboretum , the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery (where President Zachary Taylor rests) and the Louisville Zoo .

Celebrities

Louisville is the birthplace of some celebrities:

the musician Lionel Hampton
the boxer Cassius Clay (Mohammed Ali)
the actor Victor Mature
the draftsman and author Gift Rosa
the realizers Tod Browning and Gus Van Sant
the actress Sean Young
the author Hunter S. Thompson
the guitarist Mickey Baker

Twin cities

Louisville is twinned with

Education

The public school system, the Jefferson County Public Schools , gathers more than 98.000 students in 87 elementary schools, 23 colleges, 20 colleges and 23 other centers school. Louisville has also many private schools, including 27 Protestant Catholic schools and several schools. These last form school system protesting the most important of the country in term of many pupils.

The principal universities of the city are the Université of Louisville, the Bellarmine University , the Spalding University , the Sullivan University and the Jefferson Community and Technical College (belonging to the Kentucky Community and Technical College System ), as well as the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary , the Simmons College off Kentucky , and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary . The Indiana University Southeast is located on the other side of Ohio at New Albany, Indiana.

Transport

The principal airport of the city and the area is the International airport of Louisville, which accommodates 3,5 million passengers and more than 1.400.000 tons of goods per annum. The Bowman Field Airport , smaller, is used for the General aviation.

Public transport has a service of bus being used totality of the center and the county as Jefferson, as well as the suburbs of the county of Oldham, the county of Bullitt in Kentucky, and of the cities located in the vicinity in the Indiana.

The plan of the streets of Louisville is similar to that of the other American cities. The principal highways are the Interstate I-64, I-65 and I-71. All three meet virtually at the same place of the city, the Kennedy Interchange or " Junction" spaghetti;. The I-264 ( Henry Watterson Expressway in the east US 31W and Shawnee Expressway in the west US 31W) and the I-265 ( Gene Snyder Freeway ) form loops around the city on the side of Kentucky. Plans aiming at building new bridges towards Indiana are in project.

Louisville was a great center of the rail traffic in the history. Today the city is been useful by two principal railroads; CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern . Five principal lines connect the city to the remainder of the area, like two regional lines.

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