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Newport is a home rule-class city in Campbell County, Kentucky, set at the confluence of the Ohio and Licking rivers directly across from Cincinnati, Ohio.

Newport shares the Campbell County seat with Alexandria, an arrangement confirmed by a 2010 Kentucky Court of Appeals ruling that gave both cities equal standing as county seats.

The town was settled about 1791 by James Taylor Jr., established as a town on December 14, 1795, and incorporated as a city on February 24, 1834.

Despite its riverfront position, Newport was not named for being a "new port" but for Christopher Newport, the commander of the first English ship to reach Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.

In 1803 the U.S. Army moved its Fort Washington post across the river from Cincinnati to create the Newport Barracks, one of the early military posts in the Ohio Valley.

By 1900 Newport was the third-largest city in Kentucky, behind only Louisville and Covington, and its population peaked at 31,044 in the 1950 census.

At the 2020 census Newport had 14,150 residents in 6,445 households, and with more than 5,100 people per square mile it remains one of the most densely populated cities in Kentucky.

During Prohibition and for decades afterward, Newport earned the nickname "Sin City" for the gambling casinos that lined Monmouth Street, until racketeering investigations pushed the casinos out.

The great Ohio River flood of 1937 covered much of the city, and the flood wall completed in 1948 afterward remains a defining feature of Newport's riverfront.

Newport reinvented its riverfront as a family tourism district with the opening of the $40 million Newport Aquarium in 1999 and the Newport on the Levee dining and entertainment complex on Third Street the following year.