Poplar Hills
Poplar Hills is a former home rule-class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 380. On May 20, 2025, the city was dissolved by the Kentucky Department for Local Government due to failure to report basic information regarding its government.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 408 residents
- Description: human settlement in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States of America
- Also known as: “Poplar Hills, Kentucky” and “Poplar Hills, KY”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Butterfly gardening and Louisville Zoo.
Butterfly gardening
Nature reserve
Photo: Korall, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Butterfly gardening is a way to create, improve, and maintain habitat for lepidopterans including butterflies, skippers, and moths. Butterflies have four distinct life stages—egg, larva, chrysalis, and adult. Butterfly gardening is situated 2 miles north of Poplar Hills.
Louisville Zoo
Zoo
Photo: BlueShirtz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Louisville Zoological Gardens, commonly known as the Louisville Zoo, is a 134-acre zoo in Louisville, Kentucky, situated in the city's Poplar Level neighborhood. Louisville Zoo is situated 2 miles north of Poplar Hills.
Mega Cavern
The Mega Cavern is a former limestone mine in Louisville, Kentucky. It stretches under parts of the Watterson Expressway and the Louisville Zoo. Due to the mine's support structures, it is classified as a building and is the largest building in Kentucky. Mega Cavern is situated 2 miles north of Poplar Hills.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whitner and Camp Taylor.
Whitner
Hamlet
Whitner is a neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky located along Bishop Lane and Pinewood Road.
Camp Taylor
Hamlet
Camp Taylor is a neighborhood and former military base six miles southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, United States. First announced on June 11, 1917, it was originally a military camp named for former president Zachary Taylor. Camp Taylor is situated 1½ miles northwest of Poplar Hills.
Petersburg
Hamlet
Petersburg is a neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky centered along Petersburg Road and Indian Trail. Petersburg is situated 2 miles east of Poplar Hills.
Poplar Hills
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Jefferson, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.17757° or 38° 10′ 39″ northLongitude
-85.69302° or 85° 41′ 35″ westPopulation
408Elevation
469 feet (143 metres)Open location code
86CP58H4+2QOpenStreetMap ID
node 153717745OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4304947Wikidata ID
Q2351656
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Poplar Hills” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوبلار هيلز”
- Basque: “Poplar Hills”
- Catalan: “Poplar Hills”
- Cebuano: “Poplar Hills”
- Chechen: “Поплар-Гиллс”
- Chinese: “Poplar Hills”
- Chinese: “波普拉希爾斯”
- Danish: “Poplar Hills”
- Dutch: “Poplar Hills”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوبلار هيلز”
- French: “Poplar Hills”
- German: “Poplar Hills”
- Gilaki: “پاپلر هیلز (کنتاکي)”
- Gilaki: “پاپلر هیلز”
- Haitian: “Poplar Hills, Kentucky”
- Haitian: “Poplar Hills”
- Ido: “Poplar Hills, Kentucky”
- Ido: “Poplar Hills”
- Irish: “Poplar Hills”
- Italian: “Poplar Hills”
- Kazakh: “Поплар Хиллс”
- Kirghiz: “Поплар Хиллс”
- Ladin: “Poplar Hills”
- Malagasy: “Poplar Hills, Kentucky”
- Malagasy: “Poplar Hills”
- Mazanderani: “پاپلر هیل”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Poplar Hills”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Poplar Hills”
- Norwegian: “Poplar Hills”
- Persian: “پاپلر هیل، کنتاکی”
- Persian: “پاپلر هیل”
- Polish: “Poplar Hills”
- Portuguese: “Poplar Hills”
- Serbian: “Поплар Хилс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Poplar Hills, Kentucky”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Poplar Hills”
- South Azerbaijani: “پاپلر هیل، کنتاکی”
- Spanish: “Poplar Hills”
- Swedish: “Poplar Hills, Kentucky”
- Swedish: “Poplar Hills”
- Tatar: “Поплар-Гиллс”
- Ukrainian: “Поплар-Гіллс”
- Urdu: “پوپلر ہلز، کینٹکی”
- Urdu: “پوپلر ہلز”
- Uzbek: “Poplar Hills”
- Volapük: “Poplar Hills”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Camp Taylor Fire District and First Free Will Baptist Church.
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