St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church

Built in 1858. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church in Wilder, Kentucky is located at 1307 John's Hill Road near Northern Kentucky University. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church (Wilder, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 72 National Register listings published here for Campbell County · listed in 1980 · category: District · built in 1858.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 sitess, 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 641 Licking Pike, Wilders, 41076
When was it listed? August 1980
Category. district
Census division. Newport-Fort Thomas
When was it built? 1858
National Register reference number. 80001495 - 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

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church between 2010 and 2018, burning about 45 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
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
19 March 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	INDEPENDENCE RAILROAD
2 November 2010	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SHERBOURNE

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. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Brewer Co Plant No 10 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Campbell 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
E.O. Robinson House	2.0 miles	2017
Highland Country Club	3.3 miles	2024
Fort Thomas Commercial District	3.8 miles	2008
Fort Thomas Military Reservation District	3.9 miles	1986
U.S. Army Fort Thomas Mess Hall	4.1 miles	1980
Harlan Hubbard Studio	4.6 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001495 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Campbell County	All 72 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.