St. Joseph Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 2010 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3300 St. Joe Rd., Raywick, 40060
When was it listed? October 2010
Category. building
Census division. New Market
National Register reference number. 09001142 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

33 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of St. Joseph Church between 1998 and 2020, burning about 407 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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 April 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 April 2018	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FINLEY RIDGE
15 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 April 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 March 2020	Arson/incendiarism	1.3 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ST. MATTHEWS
5 March 2017	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CLEAR CREEK
5 March 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 March 2000	Arson/incendiarism	18 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of St. Joseph Church: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Rolling Fork Clay Bed	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this property

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raywick, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
May 2010	Flash Flood	Raywick	$2,000	Heavy rainfall caused water to flow over a bridge on St. Francis Highway near Raywick. Debris from the water also blocked the roadway.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Raywick	-	Wind damage was reported along Hazy Downs Road outside of Raywick.
January 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Raywick	-	Trees were blown over in Raywick.
July 2015	Hail	Raywick	-	A trained spotter reported hail 1.25 inches in diameter.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Raywick	-	The Marion County emergency manager reported a tree down across McCauley Road, which is located around 8 miles west of Lebanon.
March 2006	Hail	Raywick	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Raywick	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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

2 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
	St. Mary's College Historic District	4.1 miles	1980
	Lebanon National Cemetery	6.9 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09001142 in Record Group 79.
Marion 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.