St. Benedict's Church

Built in 1903 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“Benedict's Church is a historic Roman Catholic church near Bendena, Kansas. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.”
Wikipedia article St. Benedict's Church (Bendena, Kansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Doniphan County · listed in 1998 · category: Building · built in 1903, 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. 5 mi. SW of Bendena, Bendena, 66008
When was it listed? April 1998
Category. building
Township. Union township
When was it built? 1903
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture, Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 98000324 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

15 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of St. Benedict's Church between 2015 and 2020, burning about 186 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	10
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
8 September 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Doniphan County	2017036
29 August 2020	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
18 August 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Doniphan County	2017032
27 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2018026
7 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2015012
6 March 2017	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Doniphan County	2017012
23 March 2017	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Doniphan County	2017019
18 March 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Doniphan County	2017015

Every fire recorded in Doniphan County

Storms near this property

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bendena, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2003: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Bendena	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Bendena	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Bendena	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Doniphan 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
M. D. L. Williams Barn	2.8 miles	1987
Albert Albers Barn	3.5 miles	1987
Mathew Eylar Barn No. 2	3.9 miles	1987
Mathew Eylar Barn No. 1	4.8 miles	1987
T. L. White Barn	5.5 miles	1987
J. A. Symns Barn	5.6 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000324 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Doniphan County	All 35 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.