Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Cambria, IL

Cambria is a village in northwestern Williamson County in Southern Illinois, with Marion as its county seat.

Cambria was established in the early 1900s by brothers Tom and Evan John, owners of the Carterville and Big Muddy Coal Company, which had opened a mine in the area around 1904.

The community was originally known as Lauder, but was renamed Cambria — the old Latin name for Wales, the homeland of the John brothers — and its post office, opened as Reeves in 1905, was renamed Cambria in 1911.

Cambria covers 1.46 square miles at an elevation of 427 feet and uses ZIP code 62915.

Cambria had a population of 1,505 in the 2020 census, a jump of 22.6% from 1,228 in 2010, rebounding from a low of 568 residents in 1960.

The 2020 census counted 649 households and 749 housing units in Cambria, with 13.4% of units vacant, a median age of 33.7 years, and 23.7% of residents under the age of 18.

In 2020, Cambria's population was 81.5% White, 6.4% Black, and 5.0% Hispanic or Latino.

Cambria is in Carterville Community Unit School District 5, and Cambria Grade School closed in 2001 when the Tri-C communities of Carterville, Cambria, and Crainville consolidated their kindergarten through middle school grades; the village board now meets in the old Cambria Grade School building.

Cambria sits near John A. Logan College in Carterville and Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and its notable native is Luther Harvel, an outfielder for the Cleveland Indians.