Saint Charles, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the St. Charles census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42453. It stands on Fox Run. The Survey maps it on the Saint Charles quadrangle. 273 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 440 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSaint Charles fell from 277 to 273 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 | 277 | |
| 2020 | 273 | -4 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1909 USGS Dawson Springs quadrangle1:48000
- 1911 USGS Dawson Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Saint Charles quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Saint Charles quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
24 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Saint Charles between 1998 and 2017, burning about 527 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 31 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 100 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 31 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 31 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 31 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 1 July 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | ROCK SPARK |
| 12 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | AXLE |
| 24 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Saint Charles: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Charles Clay | Clay | Prospect |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamby | 2.3 miles | 12 | |
| Daniel Boone | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Ilsley | 3.1 miles | 12 | |
| Homestead (historical) | 3.1 miles | 12 | |
| Southard | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Union Temple (historical) | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Good Hope (historical) | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Little Valley | 5.4 miles | 12 |
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 Saint Charles | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2399156 | 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 502599. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.







