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Alexandria is a home rule-class city in Campbell County, Kentucky, and, along with Newport, one of the county's two seats; its motto is 'Where the city meets the country.'

The area was first settled about 1793 by Frank Spilman and his family, who came from King George County, Virginia, and may have named the settlement after Alexandria, Virginia.

The Spilman family was selling lots by 1819, the year Alexandria's first post office opened, and the town was formally established by an act of the state assembly on February 22, 1834.

When Kenton County was carved from Campbell County in 1840, the legislature moved the county seat from Newport to Alexandria, near the center of the smaller county; the move was so unpopular that it took a court order and a visit from the sheriff to make the county clerk relocate.

Alexandria was formally incorporated in 1856.

Newport regained its own courthouse district in 1883, but Alexandria remained the sole official county seat until a court ruling in 2010 gave Newport equal county-seat status.

The second-oldest road established in Kentucky, the Old State Road of 1836, ran through Alexandria; its successor, the Alexandria Pike, opened as a toll road in 1856 with two toll booths in Alexandria before the county bought the road in 1921 and it became part of U.S. Route 27.

Alexandria sits near the geographic center of Campbell County, about 14 miles south of Cincinnati on U.S. Route 27, with Kentucky Route 9 following its northeastern boundary.

Long a small farming town with just 316 residents in 1920, Alexandria boomed with suburban growth, reaching 1,318 residents in 1960, 8,286 in 2000, and 10,341 in 2020.

The 2020 census counted 10,341 residents in Alexandria, living in 3,819 households, with a median age of 39.1 years.