The last decennial census counted 313 people living in Eubank. A more recent count nudges that number into the 300s, but not by much. This is a town small enough that a single fire captain can speak for the whole department, and small enough that most people who grew up here can name every family on their road.
None of that explains why a pizza shop on the north end of town now employs about 30 people, or why a national online restaurant series drove out to feature it. A payroll that size, in a place this size, only makes sense once you stop measuring Eubank by its population and start measuring it by what runs through it.
A Town Built On A Through Road
Eubank sits where Kentucky Route 1247 crosses Kentucky Route 70, with US Route 27 running along its eastern edge. That highway is the reason the math works. Head south on US-27 and you're in Somerset, the Pulaski County seat, in 14 miles. Head north and you're in Stanford, the Lincoln County seat, in 18 miles. Eubank's city limits actually straddle both counties, with the Pulaski County side counted in the Somerset micropolitan area and a small Lincoln County sliver counted separately out of Danville.
That position, a town that belongs to two counties and sits on the direct line between two county seats, means Eubank has never really functioned as a self-contained little village. It functions as a stop on the way to somewhere else, for a lot of somewhere elses. Understanding that is the key to almost everything else worth knowing about daily life here.
Two Locations, Fourteen Miles Apart
Eubank Pizza opened under new ownership in March 2018, when Chris and April Robinson moved from the Chicago area after years of visiting Lake Cumberland as tourists. They bought an existing pizza shop in Eubank Plaza, just off north US-27, and started serving Chicago-style deep dish and stromboli to a town that had never had much of either.
The Robinsons didn't stay put. In 2019 they opened a second Eubank Pizza on the opposite end of Pulaski County, on south US-27 at the doorstep of Burnside. Chris Robinson has said the two locations exist for exactly the reason the map suggests: one shop reaches the north end of the county, the other reaches the south, and together they cover Pulaski County and spill into Lincoln and Casey counties as well.
| Location | Opened | Position |
|---|---|---|
| Eubank (original, relocated) | 2018, moved to a larger building September 2024 | North US-27, just south of Eubank Plaza |
| Burnside | 2019 | South US-27, at the Burnside line |
The September 2024 move put the northern location into a bigger building right next to its original Eubank Plaza spot, and the business kept its existing customers without losing momentum, according to Robinson.
Three Employees. Now Thirty.
When the Robinsons took over in 2018, Eubank Pizza ran with three employees. It now runs with roughly 30. That is a tenfold jump in staffing for a business anchored in a town of a few hundred residents, and it only pencils out because the customer base was never confined to Eubank's city limits. Robinson has described pulling regulars from across Pulaski County and from neighboring Lincoln and Casey counties too.
In early 2025, that growth caught the attention of America's Best Restaurants, an online series that visits independent restaurants for video features. The Robinsons hadn't sought out the exposure. Robinson later said the outreach came out of nowhere, and that the opportunity to introduce Eubank Pizza to people who hadn't tried it yet, while giving existing fans one more reason to stop in, was one they were glad to take.
A national food series choosing a shop in a town this size isn't really a story about Eubank having a big population. It's a story about Eubank having a big catchment area, which is a different thing entirely, and it's the same logic that shows up everywhere else in town if you look for it.
The Park Is Sized The Same Way
Eubank City Park doesn't look like a park built for 316 people. It has a paved walking path that loops through wooded ground along a small creek, a disc golf course, multiple playgrounds split by age group, and pavilions available to rent for birthday parties and family reunions. The city's own site also lists RV camping as an option at the park, which is not a typical amenity for a town this size to maintain on its own.
Dogs are welcome on a leash, and residents who use the walking path regularly tend to treat it as their daily loop rather than an occasional destination. None of this is unusual for a park. What's unusual is a park built to this scale of amenity serving a population this small, and it starts to make sense once you remember that Eubank draws its everyday foot traffic from well past its own city limits, the same way its pizza shop draws its customers.
The One Weekend That Proves It
The clearest evidence for all of this shows up once a year, over the Fourth of July. Eubank's Independence Day festival runs out of Eubank City Park with a parade, games, food vendors, live music, and fireworks after dark. This year's version, held the weekend of July 3 and 4, was framed around America's 250th birthday, and it drew the kind of crowd, games and food and vendors running most of the day into evening, that a town of 316 residents could never generate on its own.
That's the pattern across all three of these examples. A pizza shop that needed a second location to reach its own county. A park built with amenities that outscale its official population. A summer festival that pulls people in well beyond the two roads it sits on. None of it is a coincidence, and none of it requires Eubank to be bigger than it is. It just requires Eubank to sit exactly where it sits, on the road between two county seats, in two counties at once.
What This Means If You Already Call Eubank Home
If you live in Eubank, you already know the walking path at the park and you've probably already had the deep dish at the shop off north US-27. What the numbers add up to is a reminder that the town's small population isn't the whole story of what it supports. A city of a few hundred people is quietly backing a 30-person payroll, a park built like it serves a much larger base, and a festival that fills up a highway town for one weekend every summer. That's a specific kind of small-town math, and it's worth knowing if you've ever wondered why Eubank feels bigger than its sign at the city limit suggests.
If you're weighing a move to this stretch of northern Pulaski County, or you've got family or friends asking what daily life here is actually like, the Millie Weaver Team knows Eubank and the rest of the Lake Cumberland region well enough to walk you through it honestly. Reach out to schedule a consultation whenever you're ready to talk specifics.
