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Eadsville, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Mill Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42633. It lies near Pierce Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Jabez quadrangle.

Eadsville within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

77 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Eadsville between 1998 and 2016, burning about 2,180 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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 burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism15
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
11 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 August 2008Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 August 2008Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2008Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 August 2008Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 July 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 May 2001Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eadsville in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindEadsville$250The Wayne County dispatch reported that strong thunderstorm wind gusts had knocked down a tree onto KY-1720.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindEadsville-A tree was blown down near Monticello.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindEadsville-Trees were down across power lines along Kentucky Highway 167 and Highway 789.
May 2002HailEadsville-Penny size hail was also reported in Mill Springs

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Swifton1.6 miles14
Frisby3.0 miles14
Short Mountain3.2 miles14
Parnell3.3 miles14
Rankin3.4 miles14
Monticello4.5 miles14
Steubenville4.6 miles14
Number One5.4 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507897. 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.

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.