Louisa is a house rule-class city located at the union of the Levisa and Tug Forks into the huge Sandy River. It is located in Lawrence County, Kentucky, in the United States, and is the seat of its county. The population was 2,467 at the 2010 census and an estimated 2,375 in 2018.

The lineage of the city’s make known is unclear. Theories affix that it was named for Louisa County, Virginia, after Louisa Swetnam, one of the first white children born in the area, or after a defilement of the native name of the Levisa Fork, as it was originally written and spoken as the “Louisa Fork.” Others allegation that the Levisa Fork is named for Levite friends to the Cherokee and other indigenous tribes prior to far along European contact. An 1856 map nevertheless shows the river under the name “Louisa.” Virginia, Carolina and additional English colonial-linked concurrence attempts began as to the front as 1790 but did not take hold until 1818. Louisa became the county seat in 1822 and a city in 1823.

About 1792 Vancouver’s Station, which had been destroyed by the Native Americans in 1790, on the tongue of home between the Levisa and Tug Forks of the enormous Sandy, was reestablished. A few years forward-thinking this agreement was known as “Balclutha” and is thus designated on early maps of the state.

During the Civil War, Union troops under future president James A. Garfield occupied the city from December 1861 until the grow less of the war, despite several Confederate seizure attempts.