Eunice, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the White Oak census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42728. It lies near Busby Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Dunnville quadrangle. It stands 781 feet above sea level.

Eunice within Adair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Dunnville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Dunnville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Campbellsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

32 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Eunice between 1998 and 2016, burning about 292 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
24 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 April 2010	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HUNTING HILLS
26 April 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 April 2001	Smoking	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 April 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Eunice: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Neatsville Shale	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Adair 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Neatsville	1.0 miles	10
Ella	2.0 miles	10
Millerfield (historical)	2.7 miles	9
Pellyton	2.8 miles	9
Dunbar Hill	3.5 miles	10
Purdy	4.0 miles	10
Barnett Springs	4.4 miles	9
Christine	5.3 miles	10

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 Eunice	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5409726	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 507955. 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.