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Plantation, 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 40242. The Survey maps it on the Anchorage quadrangle. 826 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Plantation within Jefferson County

On record in Plantation

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.

Population over time

3 figures

Plantation fell from 902 to 826 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000902
2010832-70 (-8%)
2020826-6 (-1%)

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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 2020

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Outbuilding at the Farmington Historic Plantation, a living-history museum in Louisville, Kentucky's largest city, which lies along the winding Ohio River across from the state of Indiana
Outbuilding at the Farmington Historic Plantation, a living-history museum in Louisville, Kentucky's largest city, which lies along the winding Ohio River across from the state of Indiana
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress

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 Plantation: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Avoca QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Crestwood Mine UndergroundStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Martha E. Green DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utica Sand PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Briarwood0.4 miles16
Westwood0.5 miles16
Murray Hill0.5 miles16
Moorland0.9 miles16
Broeck Pointe0.9 miles16
Rolling Hills0.9 miles16
Meadowbrook Farm0.9 miles16
Springdale1.0 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on PlantationAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2196855The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 500795. 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.