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One of 19 National Register listings published here for Dallas County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
St. Boniface Catholic Church
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 250 4th Street, Waukee, 50263
- When was it listed? January 2024
- Category. building
- Township. Walnut township
- National Register reference number. 100009671 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of St. Boniface Catholic Church in 2009, burning about 4 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/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of St. Boniface Catholic Church: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schuler Coal Co. No. 1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
50 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waukee, the town this property stands in, in 50 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 23 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Waukee | $200,000 | Suger Creek was out of its banks and flooding Ashworth road. The road was closed. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Waukee | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waukee | $40,000 | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Waukee | $30,000 | A tornado developed on the north edge of downtown Waukee and moved northwest, causing minor damage at a church and car dealership. The tornado also removed some shingles and roofing to a new house that was still under construction. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waukee | $30,000 | Ten to 15 foot mature tree blown down at Centennial Park. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waukee | $30,000 | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Flash Flood | Waukee | $25,000 | Four to six inches of water over Highway 6 at Highway R22. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Waukee | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Waukee | $10,000 | Public reported approximately 2 feet of water in the street along Cedar Ave in Waukee. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waukee | $10,000 | Two foot diameter tree snapped off a few feet above the ground. |
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Waukee | $10,000 | Sugar Creek was flooding and continued to rise rapidly in Waukee near Centennial Park. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waukee | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Waukee | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Waukee | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Waukee | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waukee | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waukee | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waukee | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waukee | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waukee | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Waukee | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Waukee | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Waukee | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Waukee | $3,000 | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waukee | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waukee | $3,000 | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Hail | Waukee | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waukee | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Waukee | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Waukee | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waukee | $2,000 | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Waukee | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waukee | $1,000 | NWS Employee reported numerous 3-4 inch branches down. Time estimated by radar. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waukee | $1,000 | Winds estimated by broadcast media of 60 MPH with minor damage. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Waukee | $1,000 | Tornado touched down in fields west of Waukee. |
| October 2007 | Flood | Waukee | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Waukee | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Waukee | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Waukee | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waukee | - | Wind gusts estimated around 60 to 70 mph on the west side of Waukee. |
| July 2019 | Heavy Rain | Waukee | - | CoCoRaHS observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.01 inches from the thunderstorms. Beginning time estimated from radar. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Waukee | - | Public reported quarter sized hail. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Waukee | - | Amateur radio operator reported quarter sized hail. |
| July 2015 | Heavy Rain | Waukee | - | CoCoRaHS report of 2.08 inches of rain over a 24 hour period. |
| April 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Waukee | - | Brief touchdown |
| August 2022 | Hail | Waukee | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Waukee | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Waukee | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Waukee | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Waukee | - | 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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Robert William Andrew Feller Farmstead | 4.8 miles | 1999 |
 | Adel Bridge | 6.7 miles | 2002 |
 | Dallas County Courthouse | 7.0 miles | 1973 |
 | Adel Public Square Historic District | 7.0 miles | 2009 |
 | Dallas County Courthouse (Boundary Increase) | 7.1 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009671 in Record Group 79. |
| Dallas County | All 19 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.