Bethany Congregational Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“Bethany Congregational Church or Bethany United Church of Christ is a historic Congregational church located at West Terre Haute, Indiana. It was built between 1907 and 1909, and is a Victorian Gothic-style church built of stone, brick and limestone.”
Wikipedia article Bethany Congregational Church (West Terre Haute, Indiana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Vigo County · listed in 2003 · 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. 201 W. Miller Ave., West Terre Haute, 47885
When was it listed? September 2003
Category. building
Township. Sugar Creek township
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 03000986 - 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

40 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Bethany Congregational Church between 2001 and 2005, burning about 295 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 were 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	15
Recreation and ceremony	14
Arson/incendiarism	8
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 August 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 July 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 June 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 June 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Vigo County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Bethany Congregational Church: 4 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Terre Haute City Eng.	Stone	Producer
Harlan Farm	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
S. and G. Excavating Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Terre Haute North Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Terre Haute Sand	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Whitlock Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Vigo County

Storms near this property

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Terre Haute, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2010: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	West Terre Haute	$5,000	Pieces of roofing material were blown off buildings due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	West Terre Haute	$2,000	Numerous eight inch diameter limbs and power lines were reported down along US Highway 40 West.
April 2007	Lightning	West Terre Haute	$1,000	Lightning set fire to a vacant garage at 600 South 7th Street. The garage was completely destroyed.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	West Terre Haute	-	no account filed
November 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	West Terre Haute	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	West Terre Haute	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	West Terre Haute	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	West Terre Haute	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Vigo 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
Terre Haute City Hall	1.6 miles	2020
State Bank of Indiana, Branch of (Memorial Hall)	1.7 miles	1973
Vigo County Courthouse	1.7 miles	1983
Paul Dresser Birthplace	1.7 miles	1973
Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church	1.8 miles	1975
Carr's Hall	1.8 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000986 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Vigo County	All 58 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.