St. Mary's Catholic Church

Built in 1896 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“Mary's Catholic Church in Purcell, Kansas is a historic Roman Catholic church which was built in 1896. The church is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article St. Mary's Catholic Church (Purcell, Kansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Doniphan County · listed in 2001 · category: Building · built in 1896, Gothic Revival.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 446 KS 137, Purcell, 66041
When was it listed? April 2001
Category. building
Township. Union township
When was it built? 1896
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 01000413 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

16 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of St. Mary's Catholic Church between 2015 and 2020, burning about 182 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	9
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
29 August 2020	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
5 May 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2018019
27 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2018026
8 March 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2015013
7 March 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2015009
7 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2015012
6 March 2017	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Doniphan County	2017012
18 March 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Doniphan County	2017015

Every fire recorded in Doniphan County

Storms near this property

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Purcell, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2010: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Purcell	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. A childrens slide was blown 50 feet, and tree limbs were reported down.
June 1998	Hail	Purcell	-	Nickel-size hail was reported during a severe thunderstorm a mile northeast of Purcell.

Every storm recorded in Doniphan 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
Mathew Eylar Barn No. 1	4.1 miles	1987
Mathew Eylar Barn No. 2	4.9 miles	1987
St. Benedict's Church	5.8 miles	1998
George Hanson Barn	5.8 miles	1987
M. D. L. Williams Barn	6.5 miles	1987
John Streib Barn	7.8 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000413 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Doniphan County	All 35 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.
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.