BlockFrom the record
One of 13 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 1980 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Loretto Motherhouse
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The listing
- Address. Off KY 152, Nerinx, 40049
- When was it listed? April 1980
- Category. district
- Census division. Loretto
- National Register reference number. 80001653 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
3 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Loretto Motherhouse between 2010 and 2014, burning about 7 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 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SPENCER HAMILTON |
| 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 |
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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Burks' Distillery | 2.8 miles | 1974 |
| Loretto Historic District | 3.9 miles | 2014 | |
| St. Mary's College Historic District | 7.1 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80001653 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.