Louisville, Ohio

Louisville is a community where heritage meets high tech,where spacious homes in charming neighborhoods are minutes from a modern regional medical center, where recreational and cultural opportunities abound, where residents welcome new neighbors and visitors with a smile. People in Louisville have deep “Community Pride” and have taken steps to insure this continues through the Louisville Community Plan.

The city's population has steadily increased during the last 100 years, with the most active growth occurring in the 1920s and 1950s. Even when every other city in Stark County lost population, Louisville continued to grow. When Louisville passed the 5,000 population mark in the 1950s, its status changed form a village to a city. Currently, 8,300 residents proudly call Louisville home.

The City of Louisville is within Constitution Township and surrounded by Nimishillen Township, one of the original townships of Stark County. The City of Louisville originated from Harrisburg, platted in 1872, the oldest settled community in Nimishillen Township.