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Goddard, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41093. It stands on Bluebank Branch. The Survey maps it on the Plummers Landing quadrangle. It stands 709 feet above sea level.

Goddard within Fleming County

On record in Goddard

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

Fires near this place

37 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Goddard between 1997 and 2020, burning about 320 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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
Debris and open burning14
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
4 September 2002Naturalunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestPAR 5
3 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined42 acresKentucky Division of ForestryISHMAEL RD
9 April 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined55 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGODDARD RD
25 April 2012Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySUIT LANE
24 April 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGODDARD RD
24 April 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fleming County

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goddard in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2010Thunderstorm WindGoddard$25,000The county dispatch office reported numerous trees down countywide.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindGoddard$20,000The county dispatch office reported numerous trees down countywide.
October 1999Thunderstorm WindGoddard$3,000Power lines were brought down by strong winds.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindGoddard$2,000Strong winds brought trees and power lines down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindGoddard$1,000A tree and power lines were downed at a residence on Farris Branch Road near the community of Goddard.
April 2011Flash FloodGoddard$1,000A creek was washing away one driveway. The report was from a CoCoRahs spotter.

Every storm recorded in Fleming 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
Bluebank2.6 miles8
Carpentersville (historical)2.9 miles8
Wallingford2.9 miles8
Poplar Plains3.2 miles10
Plummers Landing4.1 miles8
Park Lake Resort (historical)4.2 miles8
Muses Mills4.7 miles8
Plummers Mill4.9 miles8

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 GoddardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690453The 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 512335. 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.

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.