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Eminence, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Eminence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40019. The Survey maps it on the Eminence quadrangle. 2,705 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 935 feet above sea level.

Eminence within Henry County

On record in Eminence

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Eminence grew from 2,498 to 2,705 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,498
20202,705+207 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Eminence between 2001 and 2014, burning about 144 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
20 July 2002Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2009Debris and open burning97 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 2001Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2014Recreation and ceremony25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryQUAIL RUN
28 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 October 2008Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eminence in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 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
April 2017Thunderstorm WindEminence$200,000Local broadcast media reported that severe thunderstorm winds blew off a roof from a modular home. Four to five barns were destroyed. A mobile home was destroyed near Watkins Lane. Numerous trees were downed, and several boards were peeled off a fence.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindEminence$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and damaged a car and a house.
October 2014HailEminence$1,000Local media reported that near Eminence, 1.75 inch hail cracked the windshield of a car.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindEminence-Trees and power lines fell down in Eminence.
May 2016HailEminence-A trained spotter reported hail 1.5 inches in diameter.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindEminence-A broadcast meteorologist relayed a report of a large tree down in Eminence due to severe thunderstorm winds.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindEminence-A barn was blown down due to severe thunderstorm winds.
October 2014HailEminence-The first of two supercells that crossed southern Henry County brought quarter sized hail to Eminence.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindEminence-Numerous trees were downed county wide.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindEminence-Trees and power lines were downed.
May 2005HailEminence-no account filed
May 2004HailEminence-no account filed
May 2003HailEminence-no account filed
February 2002HailEminence-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindEminence-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindEminence-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Bellview2.2 miles10
North Pleasureville4.0 miles10
Smithfield4.2 miles13
New Castle4.4 miles10
Point Pleasant4.8 miles9
Bethlehem6.3 miles9
Jericho6.3 miles13
Tarascon7.4 miles13

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 EminenceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2559655The 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 491762. 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.