Eastern is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

located in Floyd County,

Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ...

, United States.

Education

Three

Floyd County Schools Floyd County Schools is the school district created to serve the public education needs of Floyd County, Kentucky. The district has 13 schools serving a total of about six thousand students. The school district comprises seven elementary schoo ...

are located in Eastern: * James A. Duff Elementary School * Allen Central Middle School * Allen Central High School A new Floyd Central High School is nearing completion in the community. It will replace both Allen Central High and

South Floyd High School South Floyd High School (SFHS) was a secondary school located in Hi Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky Floyd County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the pop ...

, and is expected to open in the fall of 2017. At that time, Allen Central will be converted into a technical education hub for the Floyd County school district. Eastern has a

public library A public library is a library, most often a lending library, that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by librarians and library paraprofessionals, who are also Civil servic ...

, a branch of the Floyd County Public Library.

Notable people

* Sportscaster

Kenny Rice Kenny Rice (born July 28, 1956) is an American sportscaster known nationally for his horse racing reporting with NBC and MMA coverage for HDNet. Biography Kenny Rice was born July 28, 1956, in McDowell, Floyd County, Kentucky. He grew up in the ...

, known nationally for his horse racing reporting, grew up in Eastern.

References

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