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Saint Mary, Kentucky

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the St. Mary census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40033. It stands on Cissels Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lebanon West quadrangle. 138 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 768 feet above sea level.

Saint Mary within Marion County

On record in Saint Mary

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

Fires near this place

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Saint Mary between 1999 and 2019, burning about 66 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 March 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySPENCER HAMILTON
18 March 1999Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2007Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 February 2016Recreation and ceremony12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHAZY DOWNS RD. FIRE
25 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 November 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROSE WOOD
26 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 October 2001Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Saint Mary: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ward & Montgomery QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Saint Charles0.8 miles6
Frogtown1.5 miles6
Cissels Creek (historical)1.5 miles6
Stewarts Creek (historical)1.7 miles6
Miller Pike (historical)1.7 miles6
Cherry Run (historical)2.1 miles8
Downs (historical)2.5 miles8
McElroy Pike (historical)3.1 miles6

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 MaryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17088882The 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 502686. 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.