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Goodnight, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hiseville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42127. The Survey maps it on the Glasgow North quadrangle. It stands 738 feet above sea level.

Goodnight within Barren County

On record in Goodnight

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

8 surveys from 13 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

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Goodnight between 1999 and 2008, burning about 45 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
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
25 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance29 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1999Smoking16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barren 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 Goodnight: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Pace QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Barren County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goodnight in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 lightning, 1 hail. The reports record 4 injuries. 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
April 1996Tornado (F1)Goodnight4 hurt, $15,000no account filed
July 2008LightningGoodnight$75,000Lightning struck a house and set it on fire near Glasgow.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindGoodnight$30,000A large barn was flattened by straight-line winds on Old Munfordville Rd north of Glasgow.
April 2025Flash FloodGoodnight-Multiple roads were closed across the county due to flood waters.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindGoodnight-Two trees were downed by thunderstorm winds along Old Mumfordville Road north of Glasgow.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindGoodnight-Trees were blown down on Hutcherson Rd. at US 31 E.
May 2025HailGoodnight-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barren 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
Griderville1.4 miles13
Coral Hill3.2 miles13
Hiseville3.6 miles13
Bear Wallow4.2 miles11
Halfway4.5 miles13
Cave City5.0 miles12
Lecta5.8 miles13
Park6.5 miles11

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 GoodnightAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5583499The 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 508113. 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.