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Eriline, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Big Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40962. It stands on Lower Jacks Branch. The Survey maps it on the Big Creek quadrangle. It stands 837 feet above sea level.

Eriline within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Eriline between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,959 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 91 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
Arson/incendiarism91
Debris and open burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestDRY
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestDINKIE
25 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestTIRES
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestGARCIA
7 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestPEABODY HOUSE
5 July 2012Naturalunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestBOBS FORK
13 July 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestHOT
7 May 2008Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestHECTOR CHURCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eriline in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2022: 1 flood, 1 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindEriline-Multiple trees were blown down along Hwy 66 near the community of Eriline.
February 2021FloodEriline-A member of the public reported flood waters over the road near Peabody, making it impassable. The impacted road was not reported.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Mouth of Hector (historical)0.8 miles13
Big Creek2.2 miles13
Jacks Creek2.3 miles13
Spurlock2.7 miles13
Peabody3.4 miles13
Barcreek3.7 miles13
Hector4.1 miles13
Brutus4.1 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 ErilineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5389068The 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 512082. 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.