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Sunnyside, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Smiths Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42101. The Survey maps it on the Bristow quadrangle. It stands 558 feet above sea level.

Sunnyside within Warren County

On record in Sunnyside

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Sunnyside between 1999 and 2014, burning about 170 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
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
17 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOVING RD. FIRE
6 April 2013Recreation and ceremony4.2 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLITTLE KNOB FIRE
22 March 2014Recreation and ceremony60 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOUISVILLE ROAD FIRE
9 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 November 2009Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sunnyside: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 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
Bowling Green QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bowling Green QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunnyside in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
July 2000Thunderstorm WindSunnyside$3,000no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindSunnyside-There were many large tree branches snapped off a tree and damage to vehicles.
July 2013Flash FloodSunnyside-A spotter reported 6 TO 7 inches of water flowing over Louisville Road, with water continuing to rise. The ASOS site nearby at the Bowling Green Airport measured over one and one half inches in the 1 1/2 hours previous to this report.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSunnyside-County Emergency Dispatch reported that several trees were downed both in Plum Springs and 4 miles east of Plum Springs along Glasgow Road.
May 2000HailSunnyside-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Loving1.0 miles15
Smithland (historical)1.2 miles15
Bristow2.9 miles15
Oakland3.3 miles24
Girkin3.8 miles15
Collett (historical)3.8 miles13
Gotts3.8 miles13
Plum Springs4.0 miles15

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 SunnysideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691296The 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 509164. 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.