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Photograph of Our Savior's Kvindherred Lutheran Church
Photograph by Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Kvindherred Lutheran Church, School and Cemetery

Built in 1861 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“Our Savior's Kvindherred Lutheran Church is an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America congregation located near the town of Calamus in rural Clinton County, Iowa, United States. The church and former school buildings as well as the church cemetery were listed as an historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”

Wikipedia article Our Savior's Kvindherred Lutheran Church (Calamus, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Clinton County · listed in 2000 · category: District · built in 1861, Greek Revival architecture.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 2589 190th Ave., Calamus, 52751
  • When was it listed? August 2000
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Norwegian Related Resources of Olive Township, Clinton County, Iowa MPS
  • Township. Olive township
  • When was it built? 1861
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 00000922 - 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

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Kvindherred Lutheran Church, School and Cemetery in 2008, burning about 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
1 November 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Kvindherred Lutheran Church, School and Cemetery: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Koester PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Old Rr M Jacobsn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
King QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
M EppingStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Techau Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this property

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calamus, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 8 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1995HailCalamus$250,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCalamus$5,000Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph blew some shingles off of some roofs about 2 miles south southwest of Calamus, IA at 706 pm June 18.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindCalamus$5,000Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew down several trees and utility poles in Calamus, IA around 900 pm July 24.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCalamus$2,000trees and power lines down
June 2006LightningCalamus$2,000Fascia off a building with bricks laying all over with a power feeder line on the ground
July 2020Thunderstorm WindCalamus-A large tree was blown down in Calamus, blocking a roadway.
April 2017HailCalamus-This report was relayed via broadcast media (KWQC). The time of the event was estimated using radar.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCalamus-A public drone video showed that two apparent severe thunderstorm down-bursts had damaged corn in a field south of Calamus.
July 2015HailCalamus-Hail the size of golf balls fell, along with a few that were a little smaller than a tennis ball.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCalamus-A trained spotter reported trees down all over town along with shingles blown off roofs.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCalamus-Wind gusts estimated to be 65 mph blew down some 6 inch diameter tree limbs about 2 miles south southwest of Calamus, IA at 142 pm June 18.
May 2001Funnel CloudCalamus-Reported by public.
June 2001Funnel CloudCalamus-Reported by public.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindCalamus-Tree blown down on a house. Reported by law enforcement.
June 2015HailCalamus-no account filed
June 2015HailCalamus-no account filed
July 2015HailCalamus-no account filed
July 2015HailCalamus-no account filed
July 2015HailCalamus-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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

6 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 PropertyDistance Listed
George Johnson House0.3 miles2000
Helvig-Olson Farm Historic District1.1 miles2000
Dugan's Saloon3.8 miles2001
Grand Mound Town Hall and Waterworks Historic District4.1 miles2001
Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank4.2 miles2001
City Hotel6.3 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000922 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clinton CountyAll 33 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.
  • 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.