Towhead Island (Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky)
USA /
Indiana /
Jeffersonville /
Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky
World
/ USA
/ Indiana
/ Jeffersonville
World / United States / Kentucky
island, shoal, sandbar
Cited in navigation journal. (1820)
Shown on maps as early as 1824. (most maps of the falls don't show that far east)
It once stretched further west. (downstream and under the bridge)
Originally known as Willow Bar, the name was changing as early as 1882.
This was possibly the result of cottonwoods replacing the willows growing there.
Currently owned by a Nugent Sand Co., a barge transportation company
Shown on maps as early as 1824. (most maps of the falls don't show that far east)
It once stretched further west. (downstream and under the bridge)
Originally known as Willow Bar, the name was changing as early as 1882.
This was possibly the result of cottonwoods replacing the willows growing there.
Currently owned by a Nugent Sand Co., a barge transportation company
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 38°15'56"N 85°43'51"W
- French Island 2 141 km
- Diamond Island 185 km
- Bull Island 193 km
- Ribeyre Island 200 km
- Wabash Island 209 km
- New Wabash Island 212 km
- Hurricane Island 244 km
- Island Number 5 (Wolf Island) 349 km
- Marquette Island 351 km
- Island Number 8 370 km
- Butchertown Neighborhood 0.6 km
- Phoenix Hill Neighborhood 2 km
- Clifton Heights 2.3 km
- Clifton 2.3 km
- Germantown 3.8 km
- Brownsboro-Zorn neighborhood 4 km
- Cherokee Park 4.3 km
- Crescent Hill 4.6 km
- Ohio River Greenway 4.8 km
- Clark County, Indiana 19 km