Beargrass Creek

Beargrass Creek is the name given to several forks of a creek in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Its watershed is one of the largest in the county, though it is fairly small.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.

Places of Interest

Highlights include David Armstrong Extreme Park and Kentucky School for the Blind.

David Armstrong Extreme Park

Park

The David Armstrong Extreme Park, formerly called the Louisville Extreme Park, is a 40,000 square foot public skatepark located near downtown Louisville, Kentucky, United States, in the Butchertown neighborhood.

Kentucky School for the Blind

School

The Kentucky School for the Blind is an educational facility for blind and visually impaired students from Kentucky who are aged up to 21. The school provides a dormitory setting for its students.

Cave Hill Cemetery

Cemetery

Photo: Carptrash, Public domain.

Cave Hill Cemetery is a 296-acre Victorian era National Cemetery and arboretum located at Louisville, Kentucky. Its main entrance is on Baxter Avenue and there is a secondary one on Grinstead Drive.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Clifton and Jeffersonville.

Clifton

Hamlet

Photo: Angry Aspie, CC BY 3.0.

Clifton is a neighborhood east of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, US. Clifton was named because of its hilly location on the Ohio River valley escarpment. Clifton is bounded by I-64, N Ewing Ave, Brownsboro Road, and Mellwood Ave.

Jeffersonville

Photo: Bedford, Public domain.

Jeffersonville, often called "Jeff" by locals, is the county seat of Clark County in Southern Indiana, on the opposite side of the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky and connected to Louisville by the Kennedy, Lincoln, and Lewis and Clark Bridges.

Port Fulton

Hamlet

Photo: Bedford, Public domain.

Port Fulton was a town located two miles up the river from Louisville, within present-day Jeffersonville, Indiana. At its height it stretched from the Ohio River to modern-day 10th Street, and from Crestview to Jefferson/Main Streets. Port Fulton is situated 1½ miles north of Beargrass Creek.

Beargrass Creek

Type: Body of water
Description: stream in Kentucky, United States of America
Category: stream
Location: Jefferson, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.25984° or 38° 15′ 35″ north

Longitude

-85.72202° or 85° 43′ 19″ west

Elevation

427 feet (130 metres)

Open location code

86CP775H+W5

OpenStreetMap ID

way 825133450

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

GeoNames ID

4283505

Wikidata ID

Q4876726

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Beargrass Creek” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Beargrass Creek”

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