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Lakeland, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the East Jefferson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40223. The Survey maps it on the Anchorage quadrangle.

Lakeland within Jefferson County

On record in Lakeland

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 12 of 16 shown

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

Every listing in Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lakeland: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Avoca QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Crestwood Mine UndergroundStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakeland in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLakeland$5,000The Louisville YMCA northeast branch reported two large downed trees and a destroyed greenhouse.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindLakeland-Dispatch reported a tree down at Willow Springs Drive and Whipps Mill Road.
August 2018Heavy RainLakeland-A 15-year old and his brother were playing near an open drainage ditch running through their back yard near the 9800 block of Melissa Drive when he slipped and fell into the rapidly running water. He was swept 100 yards through a culvert to the 9400 block of Tamarisk Drive. While he survived being submersed in the culvert, he never regained consciousness and passed away on September 7th. Approximately 1.5 of rain fell in the area, about an inch of it between 5:15 and 6:15 pm EDT. The boy slipped into the ditch around 7 pm.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Keeneland0.8 miles16
Whipps Millgate1.0 miles16
Anchorage1.1 miles16
Griffytown1.2 miles16
Meadowbrook Farm1.2 miles16
Meadow Vale1.3 miles16
Rolling Hills1.4 miles16
Hickory Hill1.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 495921. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.