BlockFrom the record
One of 13 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 2014 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Loretto Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
The listing
- Address. Along KY 49 & KY 52, Loretto, 40037
- When was it listed? January 2014
- Category. district
- Also known as. Crossroads Communities in Kentucky's Bluegrass Cultural Landscape Region MPS
- Census division. Loretto
- National Register reference number. 12001202 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Loretto Historic District between 1997 and 2014, burning about 28 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Storms near this property
15 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loretto, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loretto | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported power poles down in the area. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loretto | $10,000 | Trees were uprooted. Several metal outbuildings were destroyed. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loretto | - | Multiple trees were blown down in the Loretto area. |
| December 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loretto | - | A 64 mph wind gust was observed at the Marion County Kentucky Mesonet station LRTO. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loretto | - | Trees reported down on Loretto Road. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loretto | - | Trained spotters reported trees down in the area. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loretto | - | The Marian County emergency manager reported that a tree was toppled next to State Highway 49. |
| October 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loretto | - | A NWS Survey Team found straight line wind damage beginning near West Marion Elementary School on HWY 49 just east of Loretto with some tree damage. The damage continued southeast to Sam Browning Road, where a feeding barn was destroyed and 50 cows were pinned against a wall. A 500 pound horse trailer was rolled 65 yards from west to east. On Cowherd Lane, two tobacco barns were partially destroyed along with two metal barns. There were also trees downed in a west-to-east orientation. ||The damage encompassed an area about four tenths of a mile wide and six miles long. No injuries were reported. |
| June 2003 | Flash Flood | Loretto | - | Near Loretto, three mobile homes were washed into a nearby creek. Five people were rescued, one with injuries. A bridge was washed out at Wimsatt Road. |
| January 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loretto | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Loretto | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loretto | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loretto | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Loretto | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Loretto | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
2 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loretto Motherhouse | 3.9 miles | 1980 | |
 | Burks' Distillery | 5.7 miles | 1974 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 12001202 in Record Group 79. |
| Marion County | All 13 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- 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.