Earles, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Bremen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42325. It stands on Irwin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Millport quadrangle. It stands 499 feet above sea level.

Earles within Muhlenberg 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.

1909 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Millport quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Millport quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

54 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Earles between 1999 and 2019, burning about 1,614 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GAS WELL
5 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FURLOUGHWEEN
27 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	165 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 September 2010	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	503 COMPLEX
14 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	300 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	IKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Earles in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 tornado. The reports record 11 deaths and 25 injuries. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
December 2021	Tornado (EF4)	Earles	11 killed, 25 hurt	This historic EF-4 tornado was associated with a very long-track supercell that originally formed over eastern Arkansas. The supercell produced a nearly continuous tornado damage path from northeast Arkansas across western Tennessee and western Kentucky. The starting point of this particular tornado was in northwest Tennessee, northwest of Union City (see Storm Data, Tennessee, Western for information on this and other tornadoes associated with the supercell). This tornado crossed from Hopkins County into Muhlenberg County at the Pond River, about 8 miles southwest of Bremen. The primary impact to Muhlenberg County was in and around the community of Bremen, where the tornado achieved a rating of EF-4. The Bremen area was the site of most of the 11 fatalities in Muhlenberg County. A total of 165 structures were damaged or destroyed, of which 84 were completely destroyed or uninhabitable. The remainder were damaged at least moderately. The majority of these structures were along and just south of Highway 175 from 5 miles southwest of Bremen to the community of Bremen. Several demolished houses in this area warranted a rating of EF-4. The destruction of one house warranted a wind speed estimate of 190 mph, the highest in the county and the entire track. One brick home on Highway 175 collapsed, and another was swept off the foundation (DI 2, DOD 9). A car in the garage was thrown across the road. A couple of poorly anchored houses were swept clean off the foundation within a few miles west of Bremen (DI 2, DOD 9-10). On the north side of Bremen, a two-story home was completely destroyed. The foundation was not swept clean, but all walls were gone. Much of the remainder of the path through Muhlenberg County was unpopulated woods and fields. There was a cluster of damaged or destroyed structures near the community of Moorman, near where the tornado crossed U.S. Highway 431. In this area, a couple houses were heavily damaged, but most walls remained standing (DI 2, DOD 6). A number of vehicles were thrown and destroyed countywide, including some farm equipment. Nearly total tree destruction was observed in the path. The average path width was a mile. The tornado exited Muhlenberg County into Ohio County on the Green River about 2.5 miles east of Moorman. See Storm Data, Kentucky, Central for information on the remainder of this tornado path.

Every storm recorded in Muhlenberg 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
East Union (historical)	1.4 miles	14
Sandy	2.3 miles	14
Briar Creek	2.6 miles	14
McDonalds (historical)	3.3 miles	14
Graham	3.7 miles	14
Stringtown	3.8 miles	14
Jagoe	4.2 miles	14
Midland	4.2 miles	16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Earles	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5326492	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507899. 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.