Sheldahl First Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Sheldahl First Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church is a historic building located in Sheldahl, Iowa, United States. The community was platted by Osmund Sheldahl and J.S.”
Wikipedia article Sheldahl First Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Story County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3rd and Willow Sts., Sheldahl, 50243
When was it listed? May 1984
Category. building
Township. Palestine township
National Register reference number. 84001599 - 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sheldahl First Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church between 2006 and 2011, burning about 7 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	3

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
29 March 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	951 500TH AVE, IA
18 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Story County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sheldahl First Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Lehman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Story 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 84001599 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Story County	All 37 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.