St. Bridget Church

Built in 1908 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Bridget Church is a church in Axtell, Kansas, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.”
Wikipedia article St. Bridget Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Marshall County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1908, 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. RR 2, 6.5 mi. N of Axtell, St. Bridget Township, Axtell, 66403
When was it listed? September 1996
Category. building
Township. St. Bridget township
When was it built? 1908
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 96001011 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

6 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of St. Bridget Church between 2015 and 2018, burning about 220 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/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2
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
17 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	134
5 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Marshall County	118
7 March 2015	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Kansas Forest Service	78
21 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	3
20 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2
11 March 2015	Debris and open burning	120 acres	Kansas Forest Service	79

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this property

24 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Axtell, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 16 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Axtell	$5,000	no account filed
May 2005	Flash Flood	Axtell	$500	Fast flowing water running across county roads.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Axtell	-	Measured on mesonet station.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Axtell	-	Report of 65 mph wind gust.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Axtell	-	Estimated wind gust report.
June 2018	Hail	Axtell	-	Delayed report received via social media post on WIBW-TV.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Axtell	-	A trained spotter reported a 60 mph wind gust.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Axtell	-	A trained spotter reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Axtell	-	Numerous trees and powerlines down in Axtell.
June 2020	Hail	Axtell	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Axtell	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Axtell	-	no account filed
October 2013	Hail	Axtell	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Axtell	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Axtell	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Axtell	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Axtell	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Axtell	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Axtell	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Axtell	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Axtell	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Axtell	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Axtell	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Axtell	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Transue Brothers Blacksmith & Wagon Shop	5.0 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001011 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marshall County	All 22 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.