St. John's Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“John's Lutheran Church, also known as Evangelical St. John's German Lutheran Church, was a complex of historic buildings located north of Kalona, Iowa, United States.”
Wikipedia article St. John's Lutheran Church (Kalona, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 96 National Register listings published here for Johnson County · listed in 1977 · 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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of Kalona, Kalona, 52247
When was it listed? April 1977
Category. building
Township. Sharon township
National Register reference number. 77000532 - 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

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of St. John's Lutheran Church between 2010 and 2015, burning about 20 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
Equipment and vehicle use	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 May 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	560TH AND NAPLES AVE, IOWA
31 March 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Johnson 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

5 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
Miller Round Barn	1.9 miles	1986
Roberts Octagon Barn	3.0 miles	1986
First Welsh Congregational Church	5.1 miles	1977
Washington Township Center High School	5.3 miles	1979
First Johnson County Asylum	7.8 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000532 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Johnson County	All 96 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.