Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
From the record
“Patrick's Catholic Church, Cedar, also known as Cedar Catholic Church, is a historic building located west of Churdan, Iowa, United States. It is a former parish church of the Diocese of Sioux City.”
Wikipedia article St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Cedar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 16 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.92000840- 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
12 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 12 fires within 5 miles of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Cedar
between 2006 and 2013, burning about 106 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
8
Debris and open burning
2
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Recreation and ceremony
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
29 September 2013
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2.0 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
not named
13 August 2013
Recreation and ceremony
2.0 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
not named
21 May 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6.0 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
not named
6 April 2013
Debris and open burning
2.0 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
not named
2 April 2011
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3.0 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
414 140TH ST., CHURDAN, IA
14 April 2008
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
not named
12 April 2011
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5.0 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
SE CORNER OF BRISTOL TWP, SEC 7, 800 BLOCK OF H AV
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Cedar: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Churdan, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 18 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 2 tornado.
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.
Tornado traveled northeast through Greene county in rural areas. The tornado did some tree damage to a farmstead but otherwise only produced crop damage before moving into Webster county. Tornado was found and rated using high resolution satellite imagery.
Delayed report of tree damage south of Churdan. Damage consisted of broken branches a couple inches thick. Report relayed via social media and time estimated via radar.
Miso-vortex with a slightly broader circulation and longer path. Produced minor to moderate crop damage. Damage was found and documented using high resolution satellite imagery.
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.
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.
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