BlockGoforth, Kentucky
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Goforth-Locust Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41040. The Survey maps it on the Goforth quadrangle. It stands 922 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1930 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:48000
- 1936 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Goforth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Goforth between 1998 and 2014, burning about 44 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 April 1999 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 March 1998 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 21 March 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | ANTROBUS RD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goforth in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goforth | $30,000 | Part of a roof was knocked off a building and was blocking Highway 22. |
| September 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goforth | $3,000 | A few trees were downed. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goforth | $1,000 | One tree was knocked down. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Locust Grove | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| Doughton | 3.0 miles | 10 | |
| Ezra (historical) | 3.8 miles | 9 | |
| Knoxville | 3.9 miles | 8 | |
| Callensville (historical) | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Hayes | 4.5 miles | 10 | |
| Morgan | 5.0 miles | 9 | |
| Portland | 5.8 miles | 10 |
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 Goforth | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14690458 | The 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 508105. 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.