St. Cornelia's Episcopal Church

Built in 1889 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Cornelia's Episcopal Church is a historic church on the Lower Sioux Indian Reservation near Morton, Minnesota, United States. It was built 1889-91 for a Dakota congregation returning after years of exile from Minnesota following the Dakota War of 1862.”
Wikipedia article St. Cornelia's Episcopal Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Redwood County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1889, Gothic Revival.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off Co. Hwy. 2, Morton, 56270
When was it listed? October 1979
Category. building
Township. Paxton township
When was it built? 1889
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 79003717 - 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

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of St. Cornelia's Episcopal Church in 2014, burning about 1 acre 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
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 July 2014	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of St. Cornelia's Episcopal Church: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Kaolin, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Morton Pit	Kaolin	Producer	Gibbsite, Illite, Kaolinite, Montmorillonite, Quartz
Norton Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
Rainbow Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Redwood 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
Birch Coulee School	under 500 feet	1990
Gilfillan	5.0 miles	1980
Honner-Hosken House	5.3 miles	1980
Redwood Falls Carnegie Library	6.0 miles	1980
Bank of Redwood Falls Building	6.1 miles	1980
Scenic City Cooperative Oil Company	6.1 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79003717 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Redwood County	All 23 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.