Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
From the record
“Denmark Congregational United Church of Christ is located in Denmark, Iowa, United States. The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Denmark Congregational Church in 1977.”
Wikipedia article Denmark Congregational United Church of Christ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 48 National Register listings published here for Lee County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.77000534- 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
13 since 2018
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Denmark Congregational Church
between 2018 and 2020, burning about 114 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
Debris and open burning
11
Smoking
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of Denmark Congregational Church: 6 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Denmark, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 16 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood.
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.
The first report of severe hail came from spotters 2 miles west of Denmark during the 1134-1135 CST time period with penny sized hail observed. Law enforcement reported a total hail duration of 10 minutes in Denmark with severe hail of 1 inch occurring in the 1138-1140 CST time period.
This survey was completed with the help of the Denmark Fire Department. This EF-1 tornado caused damage to a large section of shingles that it tore off a roof and the soffit blew in on multiple sides of a house. About 10-15 snapped trees, with most snapped halfway up. There were also 5-8 trees that were uprooted. In addition, a power pole was snapped. Damage largely confined to along and just west of 330th Avenue. This EF-1 tornado had peak estimated winds of 100 MPH along its 1.16 mile path with a peak width of 50 yards.
The Skunk River at Augusta Iowa, remained above major flood stage of 20.0 feet from the end of May through June 2nd, when it fell below 20 feet in the evening.
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.
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.
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