Portal:United States/Selected article/2006, week 28

Louisville is Kentucky's largest city. It is ranked as either the 16th or 26th largest city in the United States depending on how the population is calculated. The settlement that became the City of Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark and is named after King Louis XVI of France. Louisville is most famous as the home of "The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports": the Kentucky Derby, the most widely watched event in American horse racing. Louisville is situated on the Kentucky-Indiana border at the only natural obstacle in the Ohio River, the Falls of the Ohio. As of the 2000 Census, Louisville had a population of 256,231. However, on November 7, 2000, Louisville and Jefferson County approved a ballot measure to merge into a consolidated city-county government named Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government (official long form) and Louisville Metro (official short form) to take effect January 1, 2003. The 2005 estimated population for the consolidated Louisville-Jefferson County is 699,827. (read more...)