Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
From the record
“Gethsemane Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church building in Appleton, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1879 during the episcopate of pioneer Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple.”
Wikipedia article Gethsemane Episcopal Church (Appleton, Minnesota), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Swift County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.11000469- 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
3 since 2007
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Gethsemane Episcopal Church
between 2007 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Other causes
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Appleton, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 15 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 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.
A tornado developed about 3 miles north-northwest of Milan in Chippewa County and then moved into Swift County where it uprooted a number of trees and significantly damaged farm outbuildings. Maximum winds for the Swift County portion were estimated at 90 mph.
Emergency Manager reported that nearly five inches of rain fell in Appleton. Cars flooded up to their hoods at the underpass near the intersection of Highways 59 and 119. Two feet of water on Main Street, with water flowing into a building. Also reported by trained spotter and law enforcement official.
A cattle shed lost most of its roof at a farm along Highway 12 about 1 mile west of the Highway 5 intersection in Shible Township, Section 15. A machine shed was nearly demolished nearby.
The roof of three sheds and a hog barn were blown off at a farm on the south side of Lake Oliver near 20th Street NW in Hegbert Township, Section 35. A two by four was blown into the side of a farmhouse and windows were broken by flying debris. Trees were also downed on the property.
One and three-quarters inch hail swath occurred from two miles west of Appleton to four miles north of Appleton resulting in extensive crop damage. Hail occurred for 30 minutes.
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.
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.
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