Vinland Presbyterian Church

Built in 1879 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“Vinland Presbyterian Church is a historic church in Baldwin, Kansas. Its Gothic Revival style building was constructed in 1879 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.”
Wikipedia article Vinland Presbyterian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 118 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 2003 · category: Building · built in 1879, Gothic Revival.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 697 E. 1725 Rd., Baldwin, 66006
When was it listed? August 2003
Category. building
Township. Palmyra township
When was it built? 1879
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 03000707 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

67 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Vinland Presbyterian Church between 2015 and 2020, burning about 501 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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
Debris and open burning	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	14
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
8 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	39
28 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	51
28 April 2018	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kansas Forest Service	29
24 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	163
24 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	161
23 April 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	88
10 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	134
9 March 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	27

Every fire recorded in Douglas 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
Star Cash Grocery Store and Residence	under 500 feet	2019
Vinland Grange Hall	under 500 feet	2000
Barnes Apple Barn	0.2 miles	2006
Vinland Fair Association Fairgrounds	0.2 miles	2023
Barnes-Hoskinson Farmstead	0.3 miles	2023
Coal Creek Library	0.6 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000707 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Douglas County	All 118 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.