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.
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
Crutcher Houselisted 1980- Confederate Soldiers Martyrs Monument in Eminencelisted 1997
- Eminence Historic Commercial Districtlisted 1979
- Thompson Houselisted 1987
Population over time
2 figuresEminence 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,498 | |
| 2020 | 2,705 | +207 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1928 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:48000
- 1932 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Eminence quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2001Regional 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 burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 July 2002 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 97 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 March 2001 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 March 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | QUAIL RUN |
| 28 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 October 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eminence | $200,000 | Local 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 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eminence | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and damaged a car and a house. |
| October 2014 | Hail | Eminence | $1,000 | Local media reported that near Eminence, 1.75 inch hail cracked the windshield of a car. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eminence | - | Trees and power lines fell down in Eminence. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Eminence | - | A trained spotter reported hail 1.5 inches in diameter. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eminence | - | A broadcast meteorologist relayed a report of a large tree down in Eminence due to severe thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eminence | - | A barn was blown down due to severe thunderstorm winds. |
| October 2014 | Hail | Eminence | - | The first of two supercells that crossed southern Henry County brought quarter sized hail to Eminence. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eminence | - | Numerous trees were downed county wide. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eminence | - | Trees and power lines were downed. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Eminence | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Eminence | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Eminence | - | no account filed |
| February 2002 | Hail | Eminence | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eminence | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eminence | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bellview | 2.2 miles | 10 | |
| North Pleasureville | 4.0 miles | 10 | |
| Smithfield | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| New Castle | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Point Pleasant | 4.8 miles | 9 | |
| Bethlehem | 6.3 miles | 9 | |
| Jericho | 6.3 miles | 13 | |
| Tarascon | 7.4 miles | 13 |
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 Eminence | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2559655 | 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 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.





