Saints Peter and Paul Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church is a parish church in the Archdiocese of Dubuque. The church is located in the unincorporated community of Petersburg, Iowa, United States.”
Wikipedia article Saints Peter and Paul Church (Petersburg, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

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. Jct. of C64 and X47, Petersburg, 52040
When was it listed? January 1995
Category. building
Township. Bremen township
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 94001589 - 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

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Saints Peter and Paul Church between 2006 and 2014, burning about 37 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	4
Debris and open burning	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
26 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 March 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	2539 155TH STREET, EARLVILLE, IA, IOWA
9 December 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 October 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	1551 197TH ST., IA

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Saints Peter and Paul Church: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Ready Mix Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Dyersville No. 1 Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Goedkin Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Schulte Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this property

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Petersburg, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2018: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2006	Lightning	Petersburg	2 hurt	Two men ages 42 and 29 were assembling a swing set in a backyard. Both noticed lightning in the distance and decided to go inside. Lightning struck a pickup truck both were leaning against and threw them several feet. After an overnight hospitalization for observation, both were released.
May 2008	Tornado (EF1)	Petersburg	$100,000	A tornado touched down southwest of Petersburg and moved east for approximately 7 miles to the Delaware-Dubuque county line. Along its path, trees, power poles, and numerous farm outbuildings were damaged. It continued to track into Dubuque County.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Petersburg	$25,000	A machine shed and two barns were destroyed at the Theisen (pronoused tyson) farm northwest of New Vienna on 160th Street. Additionally a large tree was downed that just missed the house.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Petersburg	$10,000	A trained spotter reported several farm buildings damaged near Dyersville.
October 2018	Flash Flood	Petersburg	-	Flash flooding closed numerous roads in Delaware County. Flash flooding along a creek resulted in three feet of standing water and stranded cars in Manchester.
August 2002	Flash Flood	Petersburg	-	Rural road washed out and inundated with debris.
May 2000	Hail	Petersburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
	Ruth Suckow House	5.8 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001589 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delaware County	All 14 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.