Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church, now known as Swedesburg Evangelical Lutheran Church, is a historic church located in Swedesburg, Iowa, United States. The congregation was officially organized in 1866 by the Swedish Lutheran congregation from New Sweden in Jefferson County, Iowa.”
Wikipedia article Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church (Swedesburg, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 54 National Register listings published here for Henry County · listed in 1999 · 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. 1897 140th St., Swedesburg, 52641
When was it listed? July 1999
Category. building
Also known as. Henry County, Iowa MPS
Township. Wayne township
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 99000827 - 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.

Storms near this property

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swedesburg, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 1994	Hail	Swedesburg	$5,000	no account filed
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Swedesburg	$100	Winds estimated to be 60 mph blew away two stop signs near the intersection of 170th Street and Highway 218 about 7 miles north of Mount Pleasant.
July 2021	Hail	Swedesburg	-	Golf ball hail on 218 near Swedesburg. Heavy rain with near zero visibility.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Swedesburg	-	Several large tree limbs blown down.
May 2018	Hail	Swedesburg	-	A public report was received of hail up to the size of nickels that last for 5 minutes.
July 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Swedesburg	-	An EF0 tornado with maximum winds estimated at 80 mph touched down 1.9 miles southwest of Swedesburg, IA. It traveled 1.51 miles and lifted 0.8 miles south of Swedesburg. The average path width was 10 yards. No damage was reported.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Swedesburg	-	A portion of a gravel road (Kentucky Ave) south of Highway 78 washed away in the heavy rains. Time estimated.
March 2026	Hail	Swedesburg	-	no account filed
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Swedesburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Swedesburg Historic Commercial District	under 500 feet	1999
Hult, Charles E., House, Summer Kitchen and Wood Shed	under 500 feet	1999
Red Ball Garage	under 500 feet	1999
John Hultquist House	0.2 miles	1999
Samuel and Sarah Hulme House	5.3 miles	2019
Benjamin Chapel and Richwoods Cemetery	6.4 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000827 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Henry County	All 54 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.
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.