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Welcome to Paradise ...

So far, we found very little information about Paradise. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Paradise to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Paradise, please Contact Us.

Paradise would have been located within present day Muhlenberg County<2>.


We aren't confident of the location of Paradise, so consider the above location as an estimate.<3>


While we don't have a date for the founding of Paradise, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1852.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Paradise is 400 feet [122 m] above sea level.<4>.

Time Zone: The area where Paradise was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you leave Paradise and travel east, you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT).

If Paradise still existed, it would have been in the (270) area code.

Going back to its beginning, Paradise was originally named Stom's Landing. For more information about the names of Paradise, see The Names of Paradise on our Genealogy Page.

Communities Also Named Paradise ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 39 communities that are also named Paradise - they are located in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas (2), California (2), Florida (2), Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Newfoundland and Labrador (2), Nova Scotia, Ohio (3), Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania (3), Texas, Utah, Washington (2), West Virginia and Wyoming.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Paradise.

Communities near Paradise ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Paradise.

  • Central City
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Greenville
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Beaver Dam
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Hartford
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hartford have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartford
    • Hartford is located in Ohio County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,715 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hartford <5>
  • Morgantown
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Livermore
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Livermore have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Livermore
    • Livermore is located in McLean County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,270 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Livermore <5>
  • Lewisburg
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Powderly
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Powderly have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powderly
    • Powderly is located in Muhlenberg County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 736 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Powderly <5>
  • Drakesboro
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Island
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Paradise. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Paradise.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Paradise. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Paradise.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Paradise. See our Newspapers Page for Paradise.

Adding Paradise to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Paradise in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Paradise was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7>

From that list, the Paradise post office opened in 1852.

We also found Paradise in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Paradise.

The official website for State of Kentucky: https://kentucky.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Paradise, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Kentucky's counties, including Muhlenberg, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Paradise - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<7>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/




 

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