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Photograph of St. Peters United Evangelical Lutheran Church
Photograph by Rahummel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Peters United Evangelical Lutheran Church

Built in 1858. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Peters United Evangelical Lutheran Church is a former Lutheran Church located in rural Clayton County, Iowa, United States. The church was a part of a village by the name of Ceres.”

Wikipedia article St. Peters United Evangelical Lutheran Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 54 National Register listings published here for Clayton County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · built in 1858.

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. U.S. 52, Ceres, 52052
  • When was it listed? December 1976
  • Category. building
  • Township. Garnavillo township
  • When was it built? 1858
  • National Register reference number. 76000743 - 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

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of St. Peters United Evangelical Lutheran Church between 2009 and 2020, burning about 36 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2

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
3 May 2020Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources403 WOODLAND DRIVE, GUTTENBERG, IA
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 October 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Clayton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of St. Peters United Evangelical Lutheran Church: 9 past producers, 4 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Zinc. 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
Essman Island PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Holmes MineLead, ZincUnknownGalena
Kann MineLead, ZincUnknownGalena
RoadcutPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
RoadcutPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Blume QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fassbinder QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Clayton 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
Valley Mills2.9 miles1976
I.O.O.F. Hall4.0 miles1979
First Congregational Church4.1 miles1977
Lakeside Ballroom4.5 miles2002
Kolker House4.8 miles1984
Stone Barn4.9 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76000743 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clayton CountyAll 54 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.