St. Patrick's Church

Built in 1868. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Patrick's Catholic Church is a parish church in the Diocese of Des Moines. The church was built in 1868 and is located southwest of the town of Cumming in rural Madison County, Iowa, United States.”
Wikipedia article St. Patrick's Church (Cumming, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 55 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1868.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. NW of Cumming, Cumming, 50061
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. building
Township. Lee township
When was it built? 1868
National Register reference number. 78001245 - 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

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of St. Patrick's Church between 2009 and 2015, burning about 6 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
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Debris and open burning	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
13 September 2013	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 April 2015	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Madison 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Cunningham Bridge	4.0 miles	1998
	Miller Bridge	7.9 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001245 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Madison County	All 55 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.