Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church

Built in 1898 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church is a former parish church of the Diocese of Davenport. The church is located southeast of Harper, Iowa, United States, in Clear Creek Township, Keokuk County.”
Wikipedia article Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Keokuk County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1898, Gothic Revival.

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 4 objectss, 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 30748-30832 242nd St., Harper, 52231
When was it listed? August 1986
Category. building
Township. Clear Creek township
When was it built? 1898
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 86002277 - 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

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church between 2006 and 2012, burning about 46 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	6

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
12 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	28140 250TH ST., SIGOURNEY, IA
12 February 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 November 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 October 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 October 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	265 ST AND BIRCH AVE, IA
15 October 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	52752 270TH, IA

Every fire recorded in Keokuk 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

1 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
	C.F. and Mary Singmaster House	5.4 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86002277 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Keokuk County	All 10 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.