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Eveleigh, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Leitchfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42754. The Survey maps it on the Madrid quadrangle.

Eveleigh within Grayson County

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

19 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Eveleigh between 1999 and 2016, burning about 198 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1

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
5 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2015Railroad operations and maintenance21 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBALLMAN MCCOY LANE
22 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAVE SPRING
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 August 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2010Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2011Recreation and ceremony12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryST. PAUL FIRE
18 April 2010Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eveleigh in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2026: 3 tornado, 1 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
March 2026Tornado (EF1)Eveleigh-The tornado uprooted trees as it moved along Rough River Lake.
March 2026Tornado (EF0)Eveleigh-The tornado continued to do tree damage before it crossed near the triple point of Grayson, Breckinridge, and Hardin counties and into Hardin County.
March 2026Tornado (EF0)Eveleigh-As the tornado continued along Rough River Lake, a few branches were broken.
April 2007HailEveleigh-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grayson 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
Hanging Rock2.4 miles10
Lilac2.8 miles10
Duff5.2 miles12
Tar Hill6.0 miles18
Indian Valley6.0 miles12
Concord7.2 miles12
Saint Paul7.5 miles18
Leitchfield7.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122539402The 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 507960. 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.