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Glenview is a small sixth-class city along the southern bank of the Ohio River in northeastern Jefferson County, Kentucky, within the Louisville metropolitan area.

The 2020 census counted 596 residents in Glenview, up from 531 in 2010.

Glenview is known across Kentucky for its grand old estate homes standing on high bluffs overlooking the Ohio River.

In the 2000 census, Glenview recorded a per capita income of $85,094, the second-highest of any place in Kentucky, and a median household income of $161,571.

The city's land was once part of James Smalley Bate's 5,000-acre estate called Berry Hill, which meat packer James C. McFerran bought in 1868 and turned into a horse farm he named "Glen View," the source of the city's name.

After McFerran's death in 1885, developer John E. Green acquired the farm and renamed it Glenview Stock Farm, and the community received its own post office on May 11, 1893.

Wealthy Louisville families, including the Binghams, Ballards, and Belknaps, built summer estates in Glenview after the Louisville, Harrods Creek and Westport Railroad opened in 1877, and many of the houses later became year-round residences.

Much of the city lies within the Glenview Historic District, an 80-acre district added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and individual landmarks such as the Ballard School, Boxhill, and Lincliff are listed separately.

When the city of Louisville attempted to annex Glenview in 1983, residents sought their own incorporation from the state legislature, and Glenview was incorporated as a city in 1985.

Glenview covers about 1.4 square miles, with downtown Louisville roughly 7 miles to the southwest via River Road, and Interstate 71 running along its southern edge.