Camargo, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Jeffersonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40353. It stands on Bowles Branch. The Survey maps it on the Levee quadrangle. 1,020 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 922 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCamargo fell from 1,081 to 1,020 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,081 | |
| 2020 | 1,020 | -61 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1892 USGS Beattyville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1950 USGS Levee quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Levee quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Levee quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Irvine quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
35 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Camargo between 1999 and 2020, burning about 123 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 April 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 April 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 21 April 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 18 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | WARE CHAPPEL RD. |
| 14 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | KIDDVILLE |
| 11 April 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.5 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HWY 599 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camargo in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camargo | $100,000 | A storm damage survey team from the National Weather Service office in Jackson, KY confirmed that damage that occurred on Ficklin Road between Camargo and Jeffersonville bewteen 658 and 705 pm EDT on Thursday April 11, was caused by straight line winds. Winds were estimated to have peaked between 85 and 95 mph. The straight line winds spread debris out across an area approximately 660 yards in length and about 720 yards wide. Several homes and barns sustained significant wind damage, with multiple trees being felled as well. Two barns, a small single structure and a few tress also sustained damage from the winds on Camargo Levee Road at around 658 pm EDT. The debris field left on Camargo Levee Road was approximately 400 yards long and 100 yards wide. |
| February 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camargo | $50,000 | Highway 460 had to be closed due to a building being blown onto it by thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camargo | $3,000 | Numerous tree branches were blown down on McCormick Road. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camargo | $2,000 | A couple of trees were blown down, and some power outages were reported in the Camargo area. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camargo | $1,000 | Tree limbs were blown down that were 2 to 3 inches in diameter. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camargo | $750 | Trees were reported to have been blown down and a fence damaged at a residence along Oldham Road in the vicinity of Camargo Heights. |
| July 2022 | Heavy Rain | Camargo | - | Storm total rainfall of 4.25 inches since this afternoon. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camargo | - | Dispatch called in a report of a large tree limb down in Camargo. |
| February 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camargo | - | A tree was blown down on Fox Road in Camargo. |
| December 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camargo | - | Several trees were blown down on McCormick Rd and throughout the county. |
| April 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Camargo | - | A funnel cloud was reported from 4755 Camargo-Levee Road in the Camargo area. |
| April 2009 | Flash Flood | Camargo | - | High water was reported over Highway 460 causing the road to be closed temporarily. |
| March 2003 | Hail | Camargo | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Camargo | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trimble (historical) | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Willoughby Nation (historical) | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Jeffersonville | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Levee | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Upper Spencer | 3.3 miles | 8 | |
| Spencer Village (historical) | 3.4 miles | 8 | |
| Lower Spencer | 3.5 miles | 8 | |
| Bogy-Chennault (historical) | 3.5 miles | 8 |
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 Camargo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2360705 | 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 488655. 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.






