Marysville Swedesburg Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Marysville Swedesburg Lutheran Church is a historic church in Marysville Township, Minnesota, United States, built in 1891. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 for having local significance in the themes of architecture, exploration/settlement, and religion.”
Wikipedia article Marysville Swedesburg Lutheran Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Wright County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. Co. Hwy. 9, Waverly, 55390
When was it listed? December 1979
Category. building
Also known as. Wright County MRA
Township. Marysville township
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 79001270 - 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 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Marysville Swedesburg Lutheran Church between 2001 and 2004, burning about 66 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	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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
10 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 November 2001	Debris and open burning	64 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Wright 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 Marysville Swedesburg Lutheran 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
	Carlson Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wright County

Storms near this property

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waverly, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 9 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 2023	Hail	Waverly	-	Hail that fell was mostly dime to nickel size, but some of the hailstones were as large as quarters. Due to the increased hail/rain rate, small drifts of hail were also observed.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Waverly	-	Public works relayed a report of a tree down in Waverly.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Waverly	-	A few trees were blown down in Waverly.
May 2022	Tornado (EF0)	Waverly	-	After moving in from Carver County, the tornado dissipated shortly after entering Wright County, but it still caused large limbs to be broken on about one dozen trees.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Waverly	-	Numerous large tree limbs were blown off near Waverly.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Waverly	-	Large tree limbs were blown down near Waverly, on County Road 8.
August 2011	Heavy Rain	Waverly	-	A trained spotter measured 2.10 inches of rainfall in the past two hours.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Waverly	-	Barn roof collapsed.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Waverly	-	Branches were downed.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Waverly	-	Trees down. Estimated windspeed.
July 1997	Tornado (F1)	Waverly	-	Damage path in the town of Waverly was 1 block wide by 7 blocks long. Garages and barns blown down. Roofs ripped off.
July 2023	Hail	Waverly	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Waverly	-	no account filed
September 2007	Hail	Waverly	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Waverly	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Waverly	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Waverly	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Waverly	-	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Waverly	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wright 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

4 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
Waverly Village Hall	3.5 miles	2002
Hawkins, Dr. E. P., Clinic, Hospital and House	3.9 miles	1979
Howard Lake City Hall	6.9 miles	1979
District No. 48 School	7.1 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001270 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wright 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.
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.