Windyville, Kentucky | |
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  Windyville Location within the state of Kentucky  Windyville Windyville (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 37°12′58″N86°19′28″W / 37.21611°N 86.32444°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Kentucky |
| County | Edmonson |
| Elevation | 758 ft (231 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CST) |
| GNIS feature ID | 509383 [1] |
Windyville is an unincorporated community located in Edmonson County, Kentucky, United States.
The first residence in Windyville was built sometime in the 1850s; it was originally used as a timber storage shack. [2]
The name of Windyville is derived from its old nickname, “Kentucky’s Windy City”. Because of this, a restaurant housed within a convenience store in the community was called “Windy City Cafe.” The store was shut down at some point in 2003 due to new competition in the Riverhill neighborhood on Brownsville's northern outskirts.[ citation needed ]
Windyville is located in central Edmonson County. It is situated about 3 miles (4.8 km) west-northwest of Brownsville along Kentucky Route 70. [3]
Students who are residing in Windyville attend Edmonson County Schools, including the Edmonson County High School, in Brownsville. At one time, Windyville was served by locally based school just west of the town, Blanton School, as well as another school in nearby Asp halt until the 1959-60 merger of all of Edmonson County's high schools in other communities. [4] The Asphalt School building is still standing, but not in usable condition.[ citation needed ]
In terms of transportation, Windyville is served by State Highway 70, connecting to Brownsville (the Edmonson County seat), Roundhill, and the Butler County seat of Morgantown. It was previously also served by the original KY 67 (now part of KY 655), which connected Windyville to Bowling Green by way of the now-out-of-service Bear Creek Ferry on the Green River. [5] [4]
Kentucky Route 70 (KY 70) is a long east-east state highway that originates at a junction with U.S. Route 60 (US 60) in Smithland in Livingston County, just east of the Ohio River. The route continues through the counties of Crittenden, Caldwell, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Butler, Edmonson, Barren, Barren, Metcalfe, Green, Taylor, Casey, Pulaski, Lincoln and back into Pulaski again to terminate at a junction with US 150 near Maretburg in Rockcastle.
Kentucky Route 101 (KY 101) is a north–south highway traversing three counties in south central Kentucky.
Kentucky Route 185 is a north–south state highway traversing four counties in west-central Kentucky.
U.S. Route 231 in Kentucky runs 114 miles (183 km) from the Tennessee state line near Adolphus to the William H. Natcher Bridge on the Ohio River near Rockport, Indiana. It crosses the state mainly in the west-central region, traversing Allen, Warren, Butler, Ohio, and Daviess Counties.
Asphalt is an unincorporated community located in Edmonson County, Kentucky, United States.
Kentucky Route 54 is a 54.329-mile-long (87.434 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Kentucky.
Kentucky Route 181 (KY 181) is a north–south state highway that traverses two counties in western Kentucky.
Kentucky Route 728 (KY 728) is an east–west state highway that traverses Edmonson and Hart Counties in south-central Kentucky.
The Mammoth Cave Parkway is a major roadway located in the Mammoth Cave National Park in west-central Kentucky. It encompasses parts of Kentucky Routes 70 and 255 within the park in northwestern Barren and eastern Edmonson Counties. It closely follows the Mammoth Cave Railroad Bike & Hike Trail.
Houchin's Ferry Road is a secondary roadway located in Edmonson County in west-central Kentucky. County road logs list this road as CR-1004 and CR-1005.
Kentucky Route 136 is a 32.342-mile-long (52.049 km) state highway in northwestern Kentucky. It has two disconnected sections, one that goes from the Ohio River near Sloughs Wildlife Management Area to the Green River near Rangers Landing via Henderson, and the other that runs from KY 56 in Beech Grove west of Sebree to U.S. Route 231 (US 231) north of Hartford via Calhoun and Livermore.
The original alignment of Kentucky Route 67 (KY 67) was a north–south primary state highway that traversed Edmonson and Warren counties in south central Kentucky. It was one of the original state routes of the state highway system maintained by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. It was established in 1929 and was officially decommissioned in 1969. At the time of its removal from the state route system, it was estimated to be 21.491 miles (34.586 km) long as determined by the KYTC's state route logs and county road logs.
Kyrock is a ghost town in Edmonson County in south central Kentucky, United States. The ghost town is located about 2.4 miles (3.9 km) east of Sweeden, or about 5 miles (8.0 km) north-northeast of the county seat of Brownsville. It was once a referred to as a “company town” along the Nolin River during much of the first half of the 20th century, but the industrial town was disincorporated in 1966, about nine years after the closure of the company that created the town.
Glenmore is an unincorporated community located in northern Warren County, Kentucky, United States. Glenmore is part of the Bowling Green Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Segal is an unincorporated community in west-central Edmonson County in south-central Kentucky, United States. Segal is part of the Bowling Green Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Elko was an unincorporated community in eastern Edmonson County in south-central Kentucky, United States. It was one of a few settlements in eastern Edmonson County that were displaced for the area to become a portion of Mammoth Cave National Park.
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