Routes 25, 42, and 127 pass through the center of Florence, leading northeast in a concurrency 11 miles (18 km) to downtown Cincinnati. It was incorporated on January 27, 1830, and grew quickly after the completion of the Covington-Lexington Turnpike in 1836. The name presumably is for Florence, Italy, but the specific etymology is unclear. The town was finally renamed Florence because there was another Connersville in Harrison County.
When Madden moved away, the area became known as Connersville in 1828 for Jacob Conner, a settler who assumed responsibility for the growing town. By 1821, the area was known as Maddentown for Thomas Madden, a Covington attorney who owned a farm on the Burlington Pike. The Florence area was originally known as Crossroads, because of the convergence of several roads from Burlington and Union at Ridge Road (now U.S. The population was 31,946 at the 2020 census, making it the state's eighth-largest city and also the state's largest that is not a county seat. Florence is the second largest city located in Northern Kentucky, after Covington, and part of the Greater Cincinnati Metropolitan Area. Florence is a home rule-class city in Boone County, Kentucky, United States.
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