Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
From the record
“The Hauge Lutheran Church is a historic Lutheran church located at 3656 E. 2631st Road in Norway, Illinois. The church was built in 1847 for Norway's Lutheran congregation; the community had been founded thirteen years earlier as part of the Norwegian settlement of the Fox River Valley.”
Wikipedia article Hauge Lutheran Church (Norway, Illinois), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 29 National Register listings published here for LaSalle County · listed in 2016 · category: Building.
Peter Miller, a native of Ross County, Ohio, and wife, Harriet Holderman, from Maine, came to Ob tawa in 1830; went to Pekin during the Black Hawk war, and to Holderman's Grove in the spring of 1833; madea claim and settled where Sheridan now is in the fall of the same year, the first settler inthe town of Mission, excepting thoze connected with Jesse Walker's mission among the Indians, and Schermerhorn and Hazleton. He now lives in the town of Sheridan, the town having come to him. He has oneson, Dyson, who married Harriet Beardsley, and has eight children.
Joseph Mason, from Indiana in 1885; married Isabel Neff; a blacksmith by trade; settled on S, 28 T. 35, R. 5; still living on a good farm. Has nine children : George is in Kendall Connty ; Daniel is in Serena; W. W., married Lovina Peister, live in Miller; Ellen, married Milton Reed, at Sheridan; Sarah Ann, married James Knickerbocker; Althea, married Abel Misner ; Lewis, married Ellen Hamon ; Pamelis and Joseph, at home.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Hauge Lutheran Church
between 2015 and 2020, burning about 55 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
Debris and open burning
3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of Hauge Lutheran Church: 4 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Fire Clay (Refractory), Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Titanium. 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
Sheridan, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado, 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.
An 18 year old male and a 4 year old girl were critically injured as they passed under a tree that was struck by lightning at Robertson Field near East Church Street. The 4 year old girl may have taken a direct hit from the lightning strike.
A tornado touched down about 3 miles northwest of Millington (5.5 miles north-northeast of Sheridan) near County Roads 2900 East and 4550 North. The tornado caused damage to outbuildings and trees at 2 farms. Barn debris was spread across a field. The tornado crossed the border into Kendall county about 2.5 miles north of Millington (6.5 miles northeast of Sheridan).
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.
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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