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430 St. John Church Rd. | Sunfish, KY 42210

Sunfish is an unincorporated community located in the northwest corner of Edmonson County, Kentucky, near the Grayson County line. It is approximately 25 miles north of Bowling Green.

The Sunfish community is named for Sunfish Creek, a secondary tributary of the Green River which joins Bear Creek to drain the watershed of West-Central Edmonson County. The community was established prior to the 1825 formation of Edmonson County in the section of Edmonson which was originally part of Grayson County. Many of the settlers were Revolutionary War and War of 1812 veterans, and included several Catholic families.

Various independent schools existed in the community prior to the consolidation of all Edmonson County schools in the 1950s, and the former Sunfish High School remained open as an elementary (grades 1-8) school until 1979.

Current community activities are centered around St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church. Most employment and entertainment is found in Brownsville, the county seat of Edmonson County. Leitchfield in Grayson County is the nearest large community. St. John is the home of a historic church cemetery.