First Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Ansgar or Saint Ansgar is a 1.03-square-mile (2.67 km2) city in Mitchell County, Iowa. It was founded in 1853 by Norwegian settlers who arrived at the convergence of the Cedar River, Deer Creek, and Turtle Creek, and was named after the patron saint of Scandinavia.”
Wikipedia article St. Ansgar, Iowa, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Mitchell County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 212 N. Main St., St. Ansgar, 50472
When was it listed? December 1976
Category. building
Township. St. Ansgar township
Architectural style. vernacular architecture
National Register reference number. 76000795 - 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

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of First Lutheran Church between 2009 and 2010, 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/undetermined	4

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
11 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 June 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	4017 GLASS AVE, ST. ANSGAR, IOWA
30 March 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	1755 HW 105, ST. ANSGAR, IOWA

Every fire recorded in Mitchell County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of First Lutheran Church: 4 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Blakestad	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Duenow Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Falk Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Marks Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Mitchell 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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Saint Ansgar Public School	0.2 miles	2020
Mitchell Powerhouse and Dam	4.8 miles	1978
Nels Severson Barn	5.2 miles	1977
Otranto Bridge	6.1 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000795 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mitchell County	All 12 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.