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St. Boniface of New Vienna Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“Saint Boniface Church is the Catholic parish church for the city of New Vienna, Iowa and the surrounding area. It is a Gothic-style church, with stained glass windows, a handcarved main altar, and a striking 200-foot (61 m) spire The parish, part of the Archdiocese of Dubuque, is partnered with Ss.”

Wikipedia article Saint Boniface Church (New Vienna, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 84 National Register listings published here for Dubuque County · listed in 1999 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. 7401 Columbus St., New Vienna, 52065
  • When was it listed? September 1999
  • Category. district
  • Township. New Wine township
  • National Register reference number. 99001207 - 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

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of St. Boniface of New Vienna Historic District between 2006 and 2014, burning about 48 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources31002 NEW VIENNA RD, IOWA
19 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources19598 COLONY RD., IOWA
9 December 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 December 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 December 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Dubuque County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of St. Boniface of New Vienna Historic District: 4 producers, 4 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dyersville No. 1 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Goedkin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hermsen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ready Mix Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tegeler Lake Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dubuque County

Storms near this property

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Vienna, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2008Tornado (EF1)New Vienna$250,000Tornado moved from Delaware County into Dubuque County. The tornado moved southeast across New Wine Park, damaging over 1,000 trees. It also damaged a barn and hay shelter before lifting near the intersection of Highway 136 and Floyd Road.
April 1994HailNew Vienna$50,000no account filed
May 2004Flash FloodNew Vienna$10,000New Wein County Park evacuated.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Vienna-The Emergency Manager estimated thunderstorm wind speeds of 80 MPH.
July 2024Flash FloodNew Vienna-The Emergency Manager reported flooding on roads west of New Vienna.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindNew Vienna-Fifty two knot winds reported.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindNew Vienna-Tree limbs blown down.
June 2013Flash FloodNew Vienna-New Wine Park was evacuated due to high waters from recent heavy rains. Recent rainfall amounts were estimated between 2 to 3 inches. The Emergency Manager reported 3.70 inches fell in Luxemburg in one hour.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindNew Vienna-Estimated 60 mph wind was combined with pea sized hail.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindNew Vienna-Wind was estimated at 50 to 60 mph.
April 2008HailNew Vienna-Ping pong ball size hail was measured near New Vienna.
June 2008Flash FloodNew Vienna-Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding of parts of Dubuque County June 12.|Dyersville Road was covered with a half a foot of water forcing its closure. The rainfall total between 12 pm and 8 pm in Farley, IA was over 10 inches.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Vienna-no account filed
June 2011HailNew Vienna-no account filed
May 2000HailNew Vienna-no account filed
May 2000HailNew Vienna-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dubuque 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

4 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Basilica of St. Francis Xavier, Church and Rectory4.2 miles1999
Allen House4.7 miles1975
Western Hotel7.4 miles1976
Lincoln School7.8 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99001207 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dubuque CountyAll 84 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.