Saint Camillus Academy

Built in 1908 (Prairie School architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Saint Camillus Academy was a Catholic school located in Corbin, Kentucky, established in 1908 by the Sisters of Divine Providence with the help of the Diocese of Covington. The school originally served students in grades 1-12 and included boarding facilities for girls.”
Wikipedia article Saint Camillus Academy, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Knox County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1908, Prairie School architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Center St., Corbin, 40701
When was it listed? March 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Corbin MRA
Census division. Corbin
When was it built? 1908
Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
National Register reference number. 86000607 - 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

91 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Saint Camillus Academy between 1994 and 2019, burning about 834 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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
Debris and open burning	44
Recreation and ceremony	19
Arson/incendiarism	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2007	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 August 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 August 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	BEGLEY
19 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	3 SISTERS
13 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	LAUREL BRIDGE
3 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SAWDUST PI
28 June 2012	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SCOTTS ROA

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Saint Camillus Academy: 1 producer, 1 plant. All of them still produce. 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
	No. 1 Mill	Clay	Plant
	No. 1 Mine	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Knox County

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

1 within 8 miles

Other 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
	East Main Street Bridge	under 500 feet	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000607 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Knox County	All 7 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.
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.