Zachary Taylor National Cemetery

Built in 1926. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Zachary Taylor National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located at 4701 Brownsboro Road (US-42), in Louisville, Kentucky. It is named for Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States, who is buried there with his wife, Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor.”
Wikipedia article Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 526 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1983 · category: District · built in 1926.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Taylor, Zachary, National Cemetery - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 4701 Brownsboro Rd., St. Matthews, 40207
When was it listed? November 1983
Category. district
Also known as. Jefferson County MRA
Census division. East Jefferson
When was it built? 1926
National Register reference number. 83003733 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Zachary Taylor National Cemetery: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
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
Utica Sand Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utica Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Zachary Taylor House	0.5 miles	1966
Herr-Rudy Family Houses	0.5 miles	1978
Ridgeway	1.1 miles	1973
Berry Hill	1.2 miles	1983
Atherton Carriage House	1.3 miles	1983
Woodside/John T. Bate House	1.3 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83003733 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 526 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.