Danske Evangelist Lutheran Kirke

Built in 1880 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Denmark Evangelical Lutheran Community Church, formerly known as the Danske Evangelist Lutheran Kirke is a Lutheran church in Denmark, Kansas. It was added to the National Register in 1991.”
Wikipedia article Danske Evangelist Lutheran Kirke, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1880, 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. Between Trail and Timber Creeks due E of Denmark, Grant Township, Denmark, 67455
When was it listed? September 1991
Category. building
Township. Grant township
When was it built? 1880
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 91001154 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Danske Evangelist Lutheran Kirke in 2018, burning about 40 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
Debris and open burning	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
25 January 2018	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Kansas Forest Service	18037

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this property

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Denmark, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2010: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Denmark	$5,000	Winds up to 70 miles an hour toppled an emergency services radio repeater tower system. A mile and a half away trees were uprooted and a large tree limb fell on a house. Golf ball-size hail fell two miles south of Ash Grove, while hail the size of mothballs fell at Sylvan Grove.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Denmark	$1,000	The strong winds knocked down some trees and tree limbs.
September 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Denmark	-	The strong winds were accompanied by one inch hail.
June 2010	Hail	Denmark	-	no account filed
September 2010	Hail	Denmark	-	no account filed
September 2009	Hail	Denmark	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Denmark	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Denmark	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Nielsen Farm	1.0 miles	2006
Lincoln Downtown Historic District	7.8 miles	2020
Cummins Block Building	7.8 miles	2000
Evangelical Lutheran School	7.8 miles	2015
Lincoln County Courthouse	7.9 miles	1976
Lincoln Carnegie Library	7.9 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001154 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lincoln County	All 15 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.