St. Patrick Church

Built in 1915 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Patrick Church is located in Imogene, Iowa, United States. It is a Catholic parish church in the Diocese of Des Moines.”
Wikipedia article St. Patrick Church (Imogene, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Fremont County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1915, Gothic Revival.

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. 3rd St., Imogene, 51645
When was it listed? July 1983
Category. building
Township. Monroe township
When was it built? 1915
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 83000360 - 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 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of St. Patrick Church between 2016 and 2018, burning about 100 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	2

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 March 2018	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 March 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	SHENANDOAH FD

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this property

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Imogene, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2024	Hail	Imogene	-	Quarter sized hail was reported in Imogene via mPING.
May 2024	Hail	Imogene	-	Quarter sized hail was reported in Imogene via mPING.
May 2024	Funnel Cloud	Imogene	-	A funnel cloud was reported by broadcast media extending halfway to the ground. This was just south of the town of Imogene.
May 2023	Hail	Imogene	-	Emergency manager reported 1.75-inch hail.
June 2010	Hail	Imogene	-	Hail around baseball-size was reported by law enforcement around Imogene.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Imogene	-	Power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds gusting to 60 mph.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Imogene	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 80 mph by the Fire Department.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Imogene	-	Barn roof blown off and hit a car. Many power poles downed.
April 1999	Hail	Imogene	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83000360 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fremont County	All 9 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.
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.