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.
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
- Quigley, G. F., and Son Grocerylisted 1983
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1935 USGS Horse Cave quadrangle1:48000
- 1938 USGS Horse Cave quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Glasgow North quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Glasgow North quadrangle1:24000
- 1973 USGS Glasgow North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Campbellsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 1999Regional 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 maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 29 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 September 1999 | Smoking | 16 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pace Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Goodnight | 4 hurt, $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Lightning | Goodnight | $75,000 | Lightning struck a house and set it on fire near Glasgow. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goodnight | $30,000 | A large barn was flattened by straight-line winds on Old Munfordville Rd north of Glasgow. |
| April 2025 | Flash Flood | Goodnight | - | Multiple roads were closed across the county due to flood waters. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goodnight | - | Two trees were downed by thunderstorm winds along Old Mumfordville Road north of Glasgow. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goodnight | - | Trees were blown down on Hutcherson Rd. at US 31 E. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Goodnight | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Griderville | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Coral Hill | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Hiseville | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Bear Wallow | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Halfway | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Cave City | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Lecta | 5.8 miles | 13 | |
| Park | 6.5 miles | 11 |
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 Goodnight | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5583499 | 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 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.







