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Photograph of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
Photograph by Ammodramus, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church

Built in 1904 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“John the Baptist Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic church in Beloit, Kansas, United States. The church is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Beloit, Kansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Mitchell County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · built in 1904, Romanesque Revival architecture.

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. 701 E. Court St., Beloit, 67420
  • When was it listed? April 1975
  • Category. building
  • City. Beloit city
  • When was it built? 1904
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture, Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 75000717 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

10 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church between 2015 and 2020, burning about 79 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
23 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMitchell County6
11 July 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresMitchell County170021
28 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service180013
18 April 2020Recreation and ceremony70 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
5 March 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service150010
17 March 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresMitchell County170010
9 October 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Mitchell County

Storms near this property

60 of 133 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beloit, the town this property stands in, in 133 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 67 hail, 50 thunderstorm wind, 8 heavy rain, 3 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1994Thunderstorm WindBeloit1 hurt, $50,000Sixty mph winds blew an empty tractor semi-trailer off the road causing it to overturn. The driver received minor injuries.
October 2014HailBeloit$750,000At 635 am CDT, law enforcement reported that windows were broken from wind-driven hail on the south side of homes about 3 to 8 miles south of Beloit. These homes were located approximately from near Road L to Road P, just east of Highway 14. At 640 am CDT, a trained spotter reported golf ball size hail along with estimated 60 mph wind gusts, 5 miles south of Beloit.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindBeloit$750,000Wind speeds at this stage of the storm were estimated at 60 mph. At 635 am CDT, law enforcement reported that windows were broken from wind-driven hail on the south side of homes about 3 to 8 miles south of Beloit. These homes were located approximately from near Road L to Road P, just east of Highway 14. At 640 am CDT, a trained spotter reported golf ball size hail along with estimated 60 mph wind gusts, 5 miles south of Beloit.
May 2025HailBeloit$500,000Hail up to ping pong ball size was reported in this round of storms.
August 2014HailBeloit$250,000Both law enforcement and CoCoRaHS observers reported a significant hail storm in Beloit, with comments including: all tender vegetation destroyed and damage to trees, buildings and automobiles.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBeloit$250,000A radio station reported an 89 mph wind gust. At nearly the same time, a 73 mph wind gust was recorded in town.
May 2004HailBeloit$250,000no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBeloit$150,000There were reports of estimated wind gusts of 60 to 70 MPH, while a gust of 70 MPH measured by a mesonet site west-southwest of Beloit and a gust of 78 MPH measured by the Beloit Airport AWOS. Damage was reported in the Beloit area, including in town where a metal roof was blown off an auto dealer on the north side of town. Numerous trees suffered damage, with a few larger limbs falling on vehicles. A number of power poles were also downed, causing power outages in the Beloit and Glen Elder areas.
August 2014HailBeloit$100,000Hail ranging in size from quarters to ping pong balls was reported.
June 2005Tornado (F1)Beloit$100,000The Mitchell County Emergency Manager reported a tornado just east of Highway 14 in the southern portion of the county.
August 2021HailBeloit$100,000no account filed
June 2005HailBeloit$100,000no account filed
June 2005HailBeloit$100,000no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBeloit$100,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindBeloit$60,000no account filed
August 2014Thunderstorm WindBeloit$50,000Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. Numerous tree branches were downed across town.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindBeloit$50,000Wind gusts out ahead of and with this thunderstorm produced wind gusts in excess of 60 mph, including a measured gusts of 63 and 67 mph by the Beloit Airport AWOS. These wind gusts resulted in damage to a garage in Beloit and knocked down a couple power poles west-northwest of town.
August 1993HailBeloit$50,000Automobiles belonging to the sheriff's office were damaged by the hail.
May 1998HailBeloit$50,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindBeloit$50,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindBeloit$40,000no account filed
October 2002HailBeloit$30,000no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBeloit$25,000Very isolated and focused wind damage occurred. A roof was peeled off a business on the south side of Beloit, and there were also a few power lines downed. There were no other reports of wind damage in the area, and the nearby airport recorded a peak wind gust of only 44 MPH.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBeloit$25,000A peak wind gust of 68 MPH was measured by a mesonet site in Beloit. Tree damage was reported in town, with limbs up to 6 inches in diameter downed.
August 2006Flash FloodBeloit$25,000no account filed
June 2005HailBeloit$25,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindBeloit$25,000no account filed
June 2005HailBeloit$25,000no account filed
May 2004HailBeloit$25,000no account filed
July 2004HailBeloit$25,000no account filed
July 2004HailBeloit$25,000no account filed
May 1998HailBeloit$25,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindBeloit$20,000no account filed
September 2018Thunderstorm WindBeloit$15,000no account filed
June 2009HailBeloit$10,000Nickel to quarter size hail was reported.
May 2007Flash FloodBeloit$10,000no account filed
October 2002Thunderstorm WindBeloit$10,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBeloit$10,000no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBeloit$5,000A 73 MPH wind gust was measured by a mesonet station located 1 miles south-southeast of Beloit.
September 2009HailBeloit$5,000no account filed
June 2008HailBeloit$5,000no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindBeloit$5,000no account filed
June 1996HailBeloit$5,000no account filed
July 1996HailBeloit$5,000no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindBeloit$4,000This wind gust was recorded on a private weather station at a fertilizer plant southeast of downtown Beloit. The exact time of the wind gust is unknown as the peak wind gust occurred between five minute observations, and was estimated using radar data.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindBeloit$2,000Tree limbs between 6 and 8 inches in diameter were knocked down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBeloit$2,000Wind gusts measured to at least 60 mph by a home weather station resulted in tree damage and a caved-in garage door.
May 1993HailBeloit$500no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindBeloit$500no account filed
April 2023Thunderstorm WindBeloit-A wind gust of 63 MPH was measured by an unofficial mesonet station located on the north side of Beloit.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindBeloit-A wind gust of 67 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile north of Beloit.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindBeloit-A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located in Beloit.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBeloit-A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located six miles west-southwest of Beloit.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindBeloit-A wind gust of 63 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles west-southwest of Beloit.
June 2020Heavy RainBeloit-A 24-hour rainfall amount of 5.05 inches was reported by a CoCoRaHs observer. In the south part of town, the NWS cooperative observer measured 4.20 inches.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBeloit-A 65 MPH wind gust was measured by a mesonet station near Beloit.
May 2018Heavy RainBeloit-A mesonet recorded 2.48 inches of rain, with most falling in 1 hour and 15 minutes. This rain resulted in some minor street flooding in Beloit.
December 2016Thunderstorm WindBeloit-A thunderstorm wind gust of 60 MPH was recorded along a line of thunderstorms.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBeloit-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindBeloit-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.

Every storm recorded in Mitchell 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Porter Hotel0.2 miles2004
F. H. Hart House0.3 miles1973
Mitchell County Courthouse0.3 miles1977
C. A. Perdue House0.9 miles1976
Abram Click Farmstead1.8 miles2013
Cather Farm5.8 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75000717 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mitchell CountyAll 13 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.