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Photograph of Old East Paint Creek Lutheran Church
Photograph by James M Larson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Old East Paint Creek Lutheran Church

Built in 1868. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Old East Paint Creek Lutheran Church is located north of Waterville, Iowa, United States. The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”

Wikipedia article Old East Paint Creek Lutheran Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Allamakee County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1868.

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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. N of Waterville on County A-52, Waterville, 52170
  • When was it listed? July 1983
  • Category. building
  • Township. Center township
  • When was it built? 1868
  • National Register reference number. 83000339 - 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

9 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Old East Paint Creek Lutheran Church between 2009 and 2019, burning about 140 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
26 June 2012Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2014Debris and open burning8.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2013Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2019Recreation and ceremony40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2016Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesWATERVILLE FD
18 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 March 2016Debris and open burning40 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesWAUKON AREA FIRE PROT. DIST.

Every fire recorded in Allamakee County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Old East Paint Creek Lutheran Church: 4 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brazell QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Allamakee County

Storms near this property

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waterville, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWaterville$1,500no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindWaterville-The public reported a large tree snapped at the base.
December 2015Heavy RainWaterville-A spotter reported 3.71 inches of rain. Dorchester ended up with 3.27 inches.
June 2009HailWaterville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allamakee 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83000339 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Allamakee CountyAll 21 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.
  • 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.