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Eastern, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Martin-Allen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41622. It stands on Wilson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Martin quadrangle. It stands 673 feet above sea level.

Eastern within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

326 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 326 fires within 5 miles of Eastern between 1997 and 2020, burning about 11,948 acres in total. None started naturally. 63 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 burning161
Arson/incendiarism63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Recreation and ceremony41
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHOP BRANCH
9 September 2002Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWEBB ST
13 September 2019Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCLARKS BR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eastern in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindEastern$50,000Significant damage was observed at the Floyd County Board of Education in the community of Eastern, where wind penetrated steel doors of the gymnasium next to the main building, before escaping through the NW portion of the gymnasium roof, blowing out a substantial section.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindEastern$1,000A social media report stated that trees and powerlines were down on the 120 block of Turner Branch Road in the Eastern community of Floyd County.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindEastern-A power pole was blown down in Hueysville.

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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
Northern0.8 miles17
Langley1.3 miles17
Midas1.6 miles17
Bosco2.2 miles17
Warco2.5 miles17
Hueysville (historical)2.5 miles17
Welco Station2.6 miles17
West Garrett2.7 miles17

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 EasternAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5329936The 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 491508. 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.