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Glendale, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Elizabethtown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42740. The Survey maps it on the Sonora quadrangle. It stands 705 feet above sea level.

Glendale within Hardin County

On record in Glendale

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 16 shown

Every listing in Hardin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Photographs

2 photographs, 2020

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Genteel home in tiny Glendale, Kentucky, a somewhat unchanged town full of late-19th and early-20th Century homes and small businesses
Genteel home in tiny Glendale, Kentucky, a somewhat unchanged town full of late-19th and early-20th Century homes and small businesses
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Sign for the Whistle Stop Cafe, just around the corner from the railroad tracks in tiny Glendale, Kentucky, a somewhat unchanged town full of late-19th and early-20th Century homes and small businesses
Sign for the Whistle Stop Cafe, just around the corner from the railroad tracks in tiny Glendale, Kentucky, a somewhat unchanged town full of late-19th and early-20th Century homes and small businesses
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Glendale between 1999 and 2014, burning about 546 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2010Smoking3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 84
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySOUTH DIXIE
6 September 1999Smoking201 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance94 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenance117 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2014Debris and open burning95 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWEST RHUDES CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Glendale: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Highway Clay BedClayProspect

Every working recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glendale in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2012Tornado (EF2)Glendale$200,000A survey determined that an EF-2 tornado with estimated winds of 125 to 130 mph touched down near 4510 Gaither Station Road and traveled 5 miles northeast while crossing Interstate 65. After damaging a barn near its initial touchdown point, the tornado damaged some homes and knocked down many trees and fences while crossing New Glendale and Overall Phillips Roads. After crossing the interstate, it then lifted the roofs off of several homes along Wildwood Drive and Sportmans Lake Road. The tornado attained its maximum width of 250 yards while striking a trucking company. Here, it buckled many roof trusses and spread significant debris over the Lincoln Parkway into a mobile home park. Finally, the tornado destroyed a garage and damaged 3 roofs along Hodgenville Road before lifting several hundred yards east of the road.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindGlendale$50,000A roof was blown off a barn onto a mobile home reported by Elizabethtown Department of Emergency Service. Also, many trees were down. A steeple from a church was blown off.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindGlendale$25,000Amateur radio operators reported power lines down at the corner of Main Street and Glendale.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindGlendale$5,000An amateur radio operator reported to the NWS that trees were down on a house near Dixie Highway.
May 2024HailGlendale-Up to quarter sized hail was observed near Glendale.
November 2019Flash FloodGlendale-Barricades were put up at Bacon Creek Road. There was an inch of water flowing over a road along the Meade County line.
December 2013Flash FloodGlendale-Flowing water covered Gaither Station Road, making it impassable.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindGlendale-Trees were blown down across High Street in Glendale.
June 2009Heavy RainGlendale-Heavy rain of 1.85 inches fell over a two hour period. Water was ponding in low lying areas but roads were passable.
May 2004Flash FloodGlendale-Highways 210 and 61 near the Larue County line were closed due to high water.
June 2009HailGlendale-no account filed
June 2009HailGlendale-no account filed
June 2009HailGlendale-no account filed
April 2005HailGlendale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hardin County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Glendale Junction2.3 miles15
Nolin2.8 miles14
Gaithers3.9 miles17
Star Mills4.0 miles14
Hansbrough5.2 miles17
Cecilia5.2 miles17
Sonora5.4 miles14
Old Stephensburg6.1 miles18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on GlendaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5568324The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 492892. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.