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Kentucky Counties

Despite ranking 37th in size by area, Kentucky has 120 counties, third in the U.S. behind Texas's 254 and Georgia's 159.

Jefferson County, Kentucky

Jefferson County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Louisville
Year Organized: 1780
Square Miles: 385

Court House:

527 West Jefferson Street
Metro Hall
Louisville, KY 40202-2814

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), draftsman of the Declaration of Independence of the United States and the nation's first secretary of state, vice president and president, (1801–09), statesman responsible for the Louisiana Purchase.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Jefferson county was formed in 1780. It is located in the Outer Bluegrass region of the state. The elevation in the county ranges from 383 to 902 feet above sea level. In 2000 the county population was 693,604 in a land area of 385.09 square miles, an average of 1801.1 people per square mile. The county seat is Louisville. Jefferson was one of the original counties in the Kentucky territory of Virginia. It is the most populous county and the most densely populated county in the state.

Neighboring Counties:

North: Perry County
Northeast: Letcher County; Wise County, Va.
Southeast: Lee County, Va.
Southwest: Bell County
Northwest: Leslie County

Cities and Towns:

- Anchorage	city	Incorporated Area
- Audubon Park	city	Incorporated Area
- Bancroft	city	Incorporated Area
- Barbourmeade	city	Incorporated Area
- Beechwood Village	city	Incorporated Area
- Bellemeade	city	Incorporated Area
- Bellewood	city	Incorporated Area
- Blue Ridge Manor	city	Incorporated Area
- Briarwood	city	Incorporated Area
- Broeck Pointe	city	Incorporated Area
- Brownsboro Farm	city	Incorporated Area
- Brownsboro Village	city	Incorporated Area
- Cambridge	city	Incorporated Area
- Coldstream	city	Incorporated Area
- Creekside	city	Incorporated Area
- Crossgate	city	Incorporated Area
- Douglass Hills	city	Incorporated Area
- Druid Hills	city	Incorporated Area
- Fincastle	city	Incorporated Area
- Glenview	city	Incorporated Area
- Glenview Hills	city	Incorporated Area
- Glenview Manor	city	Incorporated Area
- Goose Creek	city	Incorporated Area
- Graymoor-Devondale	city	Incorporated Area
- Green Spring	city	Incorporated Area
- Hickory Hill	city	Incorporated Area
- Hills and Dales	city	Incorporated Area
- Hollow Creek	city	Incorporated Area
- Hollyvilla	city	Incorporated Area
- Houston Acres	city	Incorporated Area
- Hurstbourne	city	Incorporated Area
- Hurstbourne Acres	city	Incorporated Area
- Indian Hills	city	Incorporated Area
- Jeffersontown	city	Incorporated Area
- Kingsley	city	Incorporated Area
- Langdon Place	city	Incorporated Area
- Lincolnshire	city	Incorporated Area
- Louisville (County Seat)	city/county	Incorporated Area
- Lyndon	city	Incorporated Area
- Lynnview	city	Incorporated Area
- Manor Creek	city	Incorporated Area
- Maryhill Estates	city	Incorporated Area
- Meadow Vale	city	Incorporated Area
- Meadowbrook Farm	city	Incorporated Area
- Meadowview Estates	city	Incorporated Area
- Middletown	city	Incorporated Area
- Minor Lane Heights	city	Incorporated Area
- Mockingbird Valley	city	Incorporated Area
- Moorland	city	Incorporated Area
- Murray Hill	city	Incorporated Area
- Norbourne Estates	city	Incorporated Area
- Northfield	city	Incorporated Area
- Norwood	city	Incorporated Area
- Old Brownsboro Place	city	Incorporated Area
- Parkway Village	city	Incorporated Area
- Plantation	city	Incorporated Area
- Poplar Hills	city	Incorporated Area
- Prospect	city	Incorporated Area
- Richlawn	city	Incorporated Area
- Riverwood	city	Incorporated Area
- Rolling Fields	city	Incorporated Area
- Rolling Hills	city	Incorporated Area
- Seneca Gardens	city	Incorporated Area
- Shively	city	Incorporated Area
- South Park View	city	Incorporated Area
- Spring Mill	city	Incorporated Area
- Spring Valley	city	Incorporated Area
- St. Matthews	city	Incorporated Area
- St. Regis Park	city	Incorporated Area
- Strathmoor Manor	city	Incorporated Area
- Strathmoor Village	city	Incorporated Area
- Sycamore	city	Incorporated Area
- Ten Broeck	city	Incorporated Area
- Thornhill	city	Incorporated Area
- Watterson Park	city	Incorporated Area
- West Buechel	city	Incorporated Area
- Wildwood	city	Incorporated Area
- Windy Hills	city	Incorporated Area
- Woodland Hills	city	Incorporated Area
- Woodlawn Park	city	Incorporated Area
- Worthington Hills	city	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resources

The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."