1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
United States
Compare this sourced profile of Louisville, United States before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Louisville—624,444, America/Kentucky/Louisville, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: county seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Louisville is GeoNames ID 4299276. Its recorded administrative path is Jefferson County → Kentucky → United States, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Louisville occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2025-04-14; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Louisville ranks 894 by recorded population. Inside the 43 selected United States entries it ranks 33; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 145. Its 624,444 population value is 0.80 times the 780,995 median for the country cohort and 0.76 times the 816,326 regional median. Louisville sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected United States entries. Louisville's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Louisville's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Indianapolis at 171.851 km with 887,642 recorded people; Nashville at 249.321 km with 689,447 recorded people; Columbus at 304.541 km with 913,175 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 132.69 km. Compared with Indianapolis, Louisville's recorded population is 0.70 times as large. Against Louisville, Indianapolis follows Marion County → Indiana → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses America/Indiana/Indianapolis instead of America/Kentucky/Louisville, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Louisville's. Against Louisville, Nashville follows Davidson County → Tennessee → United States in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses America/Chicago instead of America/Kentucky/Louisville, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Louisville's. Against Louisville, Columbus follows Franklin County → Ohio → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected United States cohort, uses America/New_York instead of America/Kentucky/Louisville, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Louisville's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 936 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Louisville's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 4299276, the coordinate pair 38.2542 / 85.7594, country rank 33 of 43, and neighbor GeoNames 4259418 at 171.851 km bind Louisville to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Louisville's reference point is 38.2542° north and 85.7594° west. The IANA identifier America/Kentucky/Louisville is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Louisville's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Louisville's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Louisville's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Louisville at 142 metres above sea level, a single reference value rather than a description of slopes across the city. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Louisville's closest other entries in this atlas are Indianapolis (171.851 km), Nashville (249.321 km), Columbus (304.541 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-04-14; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.