St. James Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“James Episcopal Church is an Episcopal church located at the northeast corner of MacArthur and Broadway in Lewistown, Illinois. The church serves the Lewistown Episcopal parish, which formed in 1860, six years after Episcopal services began in the city.”
Wikipedia article St. James Episcopal Church (Lewistown, Illinois), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Fulton County · listed in 1974 · 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. NE corner of MacArthur and Broadway, Lewiston, 61542
When was it listed? December 1974
Category. building
Township. Lewistown township
Architect. Edward Tuckerman Potter
National Register reference number. 74000761 - 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.

The ground it stands on

20,657 words

This property stands in Lewistown Township. History of Fulton County, Illinois;, published 1879 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Lewistown Township - 20,657 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of St. James Episcopal Church between 1999 and 2019, burning about 288 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	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
4 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28 acres	Illinois River National Wildlife Refuge	KNOTT FIRE 4-5-04
23 March 2019	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	19-020
14 October 1999	Debris and open burning	250 acres	Illinois River National Wildlife Refuge	CANTERBERR

Every fire recorded in Fulton 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

5 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
Oak Hill Cemetery	0.8 miles	1995
East Waterford School	3.7 miles	2009
Dickson Mounds	3.7 miles	1972
Ogden-Fettie Site	4.2 miles	1972
Duncan Mills Bridge	4.7 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000761 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fulton County	All 38 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.