Southern Heights, Kentucky

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 7 records

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

• John H. Heywood Elementary Schoollisted 1983 · 0.5 miles away
• South Louisville Reformed Churchlisted 1983 · 0.5 miles away
• Epworth Methodist Evangelical Churchlisted 1983 · 0.7 miles away
• Immanuel Chapel Protestant Episcopal Churchlisted 1983 · 0.9 miles away
• Southern Heights-Beechmont Districtlisted 1983 · 0.4 miles away
• Kentucky Wagon Workslisted 1983 · 1.0 miles away
• Lynn Acres Garden Apartmentslisted 2015 · 1.0 miles away

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.

• 1909 USGS Kosmosdale quadrangle1:48000
• 1912 USGS Kosmosdale quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1950 USGS Kosmosdale quadrangle1:62500
• 1955 USGS Louisville West quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Louisville West quadrangle1:24000
• 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Louisville West quadrangle1:24000
• 1983 USGS Louisville West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1986 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1998 USGS Louisville West quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Southern Heights in 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Auburndale
• Beechmont
• Hazelwood
• Heritage Creek
• Highland Park
• Kenwood

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Southern Heights: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, 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.

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 503999. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.