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Photograph of Goddard Covered Bridge
Photograph by Photo by Greg Hume ( Greg5030 ), CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Goddard Bridge

Built in 1864. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Spanning 63 feet (19 m) the Goddard Bridge crosses the Sand Lick Creek just off Kentucky 32, about 8 miles south of Flemingsburg on Covered Bridge Road in Goddard, Kentucky. The Pea Ridge Mountains and an old country church provide a scenic backdrop.”

Wikipedia article Goddard Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Fleming County · listed in 1975 · category: Structure · built in 1864.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Maddox Rd. at KY 32, Goddard, 41093
  • When was it listed? August 1975
  • Category. structure
  • Census division. Hillsboro
  • When was it built? 1864
  • National Register reference number. 75000756 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

37 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Goddard Bridge 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

Every fire recorded in Fleming County

Storms near this property

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goddard, the town this property stands in, 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

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Ringos Mill Covered Bridge6.5 miles1976
Abraham Magowan House7.1 miles1983
Flemingsburg Historic District7.6 miles1985
Thomas W. Fleming House7.7 miles1979
Hillsboro Covered Bridge7.7 miles1976
First Presbyterian Church7.8 miles1977

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75000756 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fleming CountyAll 10 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • 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.