Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church

Built in 1913 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church is a historic church in Windthorst, Kansas, which is located in a rural area between the communities of Bellefont and Bucklin, approximately 6 miles south of Bellefont or 15 miles north of Bucklin. The church was built during c. 1911-13 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.”
Wikipedia article Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church (Windthorst, Kansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Ford County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · built in 1913, 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. SE of Spearville, Windthorst, 67876
When was it listed? January 1989
Category. building
Township. Wheatland township
When was it built? 1913
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture, Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 88003087 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in 2020, burning about 1 acre 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
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
30 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Ford 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88003087 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ford County	All 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.