Watterson Park
Watterson Park is a home rule-class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 976 at the 2010 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,120 residents
- Description: human settlement in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States of America
- Also known as: “Watterson Park, Kentucky” and “Watterson Park, 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 1½ miles northwest of Watterson Park.
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.
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.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whitner and Petersburg.
Whitner
Hamlet
Whitner is a neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky located along Bishop Lane and Pinewood Road.
Petersburg
Hamlet
Petersburg is a neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky centered along Petersburg Road and Indian Trail. Petersburg is situated 1½ miles southeast of Watterson Park.
Buechel
Hamlet
Buechel is a former census-designated place in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 7,272 at the 2000 census. Since 2003, it has been part of the city of Louisville due to a merger between the city and Jefferson County's unincorporated areas. Buechel is situated 1½ miles east of Watterson Park.
Watterson Park
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Jefferson, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.19229° or 38° 11′ 32″ northLongitude
-85.68329° or 85° 40′ 60″ westPopulation
1,120Elevation
476 feet (145 metres)Open location code
86CP58R8+WMOpenStreetMap ID
node 153702867OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4312811Wikidata ID
Q1917879
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Watterson Park” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “واتيرسون بارك”
- Basque: “Watterson Park”
- Catalan: “Watterson Park”
- Cebuano: “Watterson Park”
- Chechen: “Воттерсон-Парк”
- Chinese: “Watterson Park”
- Chinese: “沃特森公園”
- Danish: “Watterson Park”
- Dutch: “Watterson Park”
- Egyptian Arabic: “واتيرسون بارك”
- French: “Watterson Park”
- German: “Watterson Park”
- Gilaki: “واترسون پارک (کنتاکي)”
- Gilaki: “واترسون پارک”
- Haitian: “Watterson Park, Kentucky”
- Haitian: “Watterson Park”
- Ido: “Watterson Park, Kentucky”
- Ido: “Watterson Park”
- Irish: “Watterson Park”
- Italian: “Watterson Park”
- Kazakh: “Уаттерсон Парк”
- Kirghiz: “Уаттерсон Парк”
- Ladin: “Watterson Park”
- Malagasy: “Watterson Park, Kentucky”
- Malagasy: “Watterson Park”
- Mazanderani: “واترسن پارک”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Watterson Park”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Watterson Park”
- Norwegian: “Watterson Park”
- Persian: “واترسن پارک، کنتاکی”
- Persian: “واترسن پارک”
- Polish: “Watterson Park”
- Portuguese: “Watterson Park”
- Serbian: “Вотерсон Парк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Watterson Park, Kentucky”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Watterson Park”
- South Azerbaijani: “واترسن پارک، کنتاکی”
- Spanish: “Watterson Park”
- Swedish: “Watterson Park, Kentucky”
- Swedish: “Watterson Park”
- Tatar: “Воттерсон-Парк”
- Ukrainian: “Воттерсон-Парк”
- Urdu: “واٹرسن پارک، کینٹکی”
- Urdu: “واٹرسن پارک”
- Uzbek: “Watterson Park”
- Volapük: “Watterson Park”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as West Buechel and Poplar Hills.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Louisville TKO Boxing and Top Notch and Louisville Armory.
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