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Photograph of St. Mary's Church
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St. Mary's Church

Built in 1894 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Mary's Church is a church in the unincorporated community of St. Benedict, Kansas, 3 miles north of the west edge of Seneca.”

Wikipedia article St. Mary's Church (St. Benedict, Kansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Nemaha County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1894, 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. NE of Baileyville, Baileyville, 66538
  • When was it listed? December 1980
  • Category. building
  • Township. Richmond township
  • When was it built? 1894
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture, Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 80001470 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

14 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of St. Mary's Church between 2015 and 2016, burning about 232 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/undetermined12
Smoking2

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
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service41
22 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined225 acresKansas Forest Service21
21 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresKansas Forest Service20
20 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service19
13 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service16
10 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service14
22 February 2016Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service9
15 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service5

Every fire recorded in Nemaha County

Storms near this property

60 of 68 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baileyville, the town this property stands in, in 68 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 38 hail, 26 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1996Tornado (F1)Baileyville$95,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindBaileyville$50,000Winds around 70 mph caused widespread tree and power line damage. Structural damage also occurred to some buildings.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBaileyville$5,000Trained spotters and law enforcement officers reported 70 to 80 mph wind gusts across Nemaha County. In Seneca, tow large trees were broken. Power lines were damaged and power went out in Seneca.
May 2024HailBaileyville-Ping pong ball size hail near Baileyville.
April 2023HailBaileyville-Golf ball sized hail reported.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-Winds estimated to be at least 60 mph.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-Trees limbs down, unknown size.
July 2020Flash FloodBaileyville-County road covered with water.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-Power out at location. Very strong winds reported, speed estimated.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-Estimated wind gust report.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-Estimated wind gust.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-Wind gusts estimated up to 60 MPH.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-Estimated wind gust.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-Estimated wind gust.
May 2018HailBaileyville-Nickel to quarter size hail was report.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-Estimated wind gust.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-Wind damaged a shed and grain bin.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-Wind gusts estimated.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-Wind gusts estimated.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-Wind gusts estimated.
June 2011Flash FloodBaileyville-Water covered K187 just southwest of Seneca. The highway was not closed, but sheriff deputies were on the scene directing traffic.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-A trained spotter near Baileyville reported an estimated 65 mph wind gust.
June 2009HailBaileyville-A spotter also estimated winds to around sixty miles per hour with this storm.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-Nemaha Cty EM relayed a public report of wind damage to out buildings.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-Outbuildings were destroyed on spotter's farmstead.
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Baileyville-Single one and a half foot tree snapped off. An outbuilding approximately 6 feet from the tree was not damaged.||
March 2006Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-A barn was destroyed by thunderstorm winds.
April 2026HailBaileyville-no account filed
June 2018HailBaileyville-no account filed
June 2018HailBaileyville-no account filed
June 2018HailBaileyville-no account filed
April 2016HailBaileyville-no account filed
March 2012HailBaileyville-no account filed
March 2012HailBaileyville-no account filed
June 2010HailBaileyville-no account filed
June 2010HailBaileyville-no account filed
June 2010HailBaileyville-no account filed
June 2010HailBaileyville-no account filed
June 2009HailBaileyville-no account filed
May 2009HailBaileyville-no account filed
June 2009HailBaileyville-no account filed
June 2009HailBaileyville-no account filed
June 2009HailBaileyville-no account filed
June 2009HailBaileyville-no account filed
August 2009HailBaileyville-no account filed
August 2009HailBaileyville-no account filed
November 2008HailBaileyville-no account filed
November 2008HailBaileyville-no account filed
June 2008HailBaileyville-no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-no account filed
July 2006HailBaileyville-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-no account filed
May 2004HailBaileyville-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-no account filed
July 2003HailBaileyville-no account filed
May 2001HailBaileyville-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindBaileyville-no account filed
June 2000HailBaileyville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nemaha 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
Hand-Dug City Water Well3.6 miles2007
US Post Office-Seneca3.8 miles1989
Nemaha County Jail and Sheriff's House3.9 miles2004
Seneca Main Street Historic District4.0 miles2006
Marion Hall5.0 miles2001
Clear Creek Camel Truss Bridge6.2 miles2003

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80001470 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nemaha CountyAll 12 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.