Cambron, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Loretto census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40037. It stands on Monick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Loretto quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cambron within Marion County

On record in Cambron

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Loretto Historic Districtlisted 2014 · 0.6 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Loretto quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Cambron (historical) between 1997 and 2014, burning about 29 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	2
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	2

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
3 April 2013	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BURBA RD. FIRE
24 April 2014	Smoking	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	NEWTON
15 April 1997	Smoking	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2000	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 November 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PASCAL BALLARD FIRE
12 November 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DOGWOOD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Gandertown	2.6 miles	8
Holy Cross	3.7 miles	8
Nerinx	3.8 miles	8
Loretto	5.7 miles	8
Burkes Spring	5.8 miles	7
Dant	6.3 miles	8
Beantown (historical)	6.4 miles	7
Saint Francis	6.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2566859. 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.