Indian Hills is a home rule-class city[3] along the Ohio River in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.

[4] Indian Hills and the nearby cities of Mockingbird Valley, Glenview, and Anchorage have been cited as Louisville's most prosperous suburbs since the mid-20th century.

U.S. Route 42 forms the community's southern boundary, leading west 6 miles (10 km) to downtown Louisville.

Ten areas were originally developed by the Olmsted Brothers landscaping firm, and other tracts have been donated to the city over the years.

Veech held over 300 acres (120 ha) as early as 1805, and his family continued to own most of the local land into the 20th century.

The Georgian-style Veech house still stands at 125 Indian Hills Trail; the farm's springhouse is at 119 Arrowhead Road.

[14] Calumet Road was the last street of the original Indian Hills plan to be built, with construction delayed until the 1950s due to the steep terrain.

[15] In 1954, Louisville proposed annexing Indian Hills in order to extend sewer service into the area and other developments further east.

This met with such opposition that The Courier-Journal was unable to find a single supporter of annexation or sewers in Indian Hills.

Indian Hills rejected the plan by a 4-to-1 margin in 1988, but extending a line through it was the only economical way to provide access to communities further east that voted for the service.

(An earlier attempt to also annex the community of Riverwood failed in 1998; Rolling Fields was approached about joining the merger but declined to participate.)

The new city reached the population threshold for 4th-class status, giving it greater local control (particularly over zoning) ahead of the merger of Louisville and Jefferson County into a single metro government.

[21] Despite the merger, the Kentucky Secretary of State continues to list Indian Hills-Cherokee Section,[22] Robinswood,[23] and Winding Falls[24] as separate and active cities.