Stearns

Geography

Stearns is located in south-central McCreary County. It is bordered to the north by Whitley City, the county seat, and to the south by Pine Knot. The unincorporated community of Revelo is partly within the Stearns CDP, along its southern border. U.S. Route 27 runs along the eastern edge of Stearns, leading north through Whitley City to Somerset and south to Oneida, Tennessee. Kentucky Route 92 passes through the center of Stearns and leads west to Monticello. Eastbound KY 92 joins US 27 south to Pine Knot, then turns east to lead to Williamsburg. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Stearns CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.84%, are water. The community is drained to the west by tributaries of Roaring Paunch Creek, which continues west to the South Fork of the Cumberland River, while the east side of the community is drained by tributaries of Marsh Creek, which flows north to the main stem of the Cumberland River.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  557
• Carolina Chickadee

  Poecile carolinensis (Audubon, 1834) · Aves
  437
• Carolina Wren

  Thryothorus ludovicianus (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  436
• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  431
• Tufted Titmouse

  Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  363
• Eastern Phoebe

  Sayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  300
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  294
• American Goldfinch

  Spinus tristis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  287

Most recent

• M 2.6 — 2026-01-04
  11 km SW of Middlesboro, Kentucky
• M 2.57 — 2023-06-25
  Kentucky-Tennessee border region
• M 2.72 — 2023-06-24
  3 km S of Blaine, Tennessee
• M 2.83 — 2023-05-20
  Kentucky-Tennessee border region
• M 2.5 — 2023-04-21
  9 km WSW of Oakdale, Tennessee
• M 2.51 — 2022-10-09
  2 km N of Farragut, Tennessee