Broad Fields, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Louisville East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40207. It stands on Weicher Creek. The Survey maps it on the Louisville East quadrangle.

Broad Fields within Jefferson County

On record in Broad Fields

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Winchester Houselisted 1983 · 0.4 miles away
Theodore Brown Houselisted 1983 · 0.8 miles away
Spring Stationlisted 1977 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1907 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1951 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Louisville East quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Louisville East quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Louisville East quadrangle1:24000
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Louisville East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Louisville East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Broad Fields: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Louisville Crushed Stone Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Alert Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Martha E. Green Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Nugent Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Plymouth Village	0.3 miles	17
Norbourne Estates	0.4 miles	17
Springlee	0.5 miles	17
Saint Matthews	0.8 miles	21
Parkside	0.9 miles	17
Fairmeade	1.1 miles	17
Richlawn	1.1 miles	21
Bellewood	1.2 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1669494. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.