BlockWatterson Woods, Kentucky
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Southeast Jefferson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40299. The Survey maps it on the Jeffersontown quadrangle.
On record in Watterson Woods
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 4 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Confederate Martyrs Monument in Jeffersontownlisted 1997 · 0.6 miles away- Stucky Houselisted 1980 · 0.3 miles away
- Leatherman Houselisted 1980 · 0.8 miles away
- Judge Kirby Houselisted 1983 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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 Jeffersontown quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Jeffersontown quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Jeffersontown quadrangle1:24000
- 1964 USGS Jeffersontown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Jeffersontown quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Jeffersontown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Watterson Woods in 2001, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 October 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mansfield Estates | 0.1 miles | 17 | |
| Jeffersontown | 0.9 miles | 17 | |
| Bryan (historical) | 1.5 miles | 17 | |
| Dravo | 1.9 miles | 17 | |
| Fern Creek | 1.9 miles | 17 | |
| Forest Hills | 2.0 miles | 17 | |
| Hurstbourne Acres | 2.4 miles | 17 | |
| Houston Acres | 2.6 miles | 17 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122563552 | The 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 2743854. 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.