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Eastwood Hills, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Brandenburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40108. It stands on Flippins Run. The Survey maps it on the Guston quadrangle.

Eastwood Hills within Meade County

On record in Eastwood Hills

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 8 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

13 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Eastwood Hills between 2001 and 2011, burning about 83 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Debris and open burning1

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
7 April 2011Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMEADE-OLIN PARK FIRE
2 April 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2009Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 March 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 March 2007Recreation and ceremony9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Eastwood Hills: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
No. 4 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lucas Corp. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Neely Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Meade 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
Brandenburg0.2 miles14
West Hill0.5 miles21
Brandenburg Station2.5 miles14
Doe Valley3.9 miles16
Ekron4.9 miles14
Johnstown (historical)4.9 miles14
Midway5.0 miles14
Sirocco5.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 491526. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.