About Newport, KYAs the largest city in Campbell County, Newport, Kentucky gets all the extras that come from having a growing population and a prime location. Part of that prime location has to do with the easy access to Cincinnati. Even though it's in Kentucky, Newport is connected to Cincinnati by three bridges. One can even see downtown Cincinnati from Newport's many hilltops. Many of Newport's riverfront restaurants are among Greater Cincinnati's most popular. Newport's riverfront, with stunning views of Cincinnati, has seen lots of development in recent years and has attracted new business to the city.
Newport is mostly an upscale community, and despite some renovation to make smaller and more affordable housing, its best known for the ritzy condos, large estates and mansions here. The Mansion Hill and Gateway neighborhoods of Newport are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. These neighborhoods have been built on the hills and lands that make up this wonderful city. | More Local Area InformationResidents are proud of their community, which is a hotbed for development. Its beginnings go back to 1791, to founder James Taylor, who named th... Read moreThe community of Wilder, KY was once known as Leitch’s Station, after Scotchman David Leitch, who owned 35,000 acres of land at that time. (Leitc... Read moreWilder, Kentucky offers many upscale homes concentrating more on the building of luxurious condominiums and single family homes to lure in youn... Read moreSouthgate, Kentucky is your typical Midwestern, middle class suburb and has experienced lots of residential development. Houses in Southgate... Read moreA local politician Albert S. Berry named the community after a wealthy landowner Richard Southgate in the late 1800s. In the 1930s, Southgate wa... Read moreThis attractive residential community was named for a Civil War fort that today serves as a park and community center. It stretches along ... Read moreFort Thomas, Kentucky is known as being “The City of Beautiful Homes” and is the name of a US Army military post placed on this land i... Read moreHighland Heights, Kentucky is best known as an intellectual center of Northern Kentucky. It houses both the Highland Heights high school, which i... Read moreOriginally part of the District of the Highlands, the city was incorporated in 1927 and was named for its high elevation. It is best known as th... Read moreNamed for War of 1812 General Leonard Wales Covington, the city is the largest in Northern Kentucky and is home to more than 43,000 people... Read moreCovington is Northern Kentucky's largest city and is located right on the Ohio River, close to Cincinnati. Covington is an ideal spot for living an... Read moreEight miles south of Cincinnati on U.S. 27, Cold Spring, KY was named for a natural, freshwater spring that still runs underground and discovered i... Read moreSupporting our nation's veterans is one of Cold Spring's most significant contributions. The National Headquarters of the Disabled American Veteran... Read moreBellevue, Kentucky was established in 1870; the community was named after a revolutionary hero James Taylor’s Virginia farm. It was incorporated as ... Read moreA small city with less than 10,000 residents, Bellevue, Kentucky is located on the Ohio River with magnificent views and well kept neighborhoods mad... Read moreThe development of Park Hills, which was mostly uninhabitable in the 1800s, began in the 1920s, years after cities such as Erlanger, Elsmere an... Read morePark Hills, Kentucky is a wonderful community with easy access to Cincinnati. Park Hills is one of the most naturally beautiful places in the are... Read moreAdjacent to Covington, Fort Wright, KY is primarily a residential community, with a small industrial park and a number of office complexes. It wa... Read moreFort Wright, Kentucky is famous for being the area where General Horatio Governeur Wright helped defend the area against the Confederate invasion.... Read moreDayton, Kentucky, the “city of progress and dreams,” was the result of a merger between the communities of Brooklyn and Jamestown that took place i... Read more |
