Sterling Congregational Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Sterling Congregational Church is a historic church in Sterling Township, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, United States, built in 1867. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Sterling Congregational Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Blue Earth County · listed in 1980 · 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. CR 151, Amboy, 56065
When was it listed? July 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Blue Earth County MRA
Township. Sterling township
National Register reference number. 80001958 - 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.

Storms near this property

18 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amboy, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 heavy rain, 2 tornado. 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
September 2010	Flood	Amboy	$2,100,000	Numerous roads were closed due to excessive rainfall that fell on September 22nd and 23th. The major areal flooding didn't recede until late Saturday when most of the small streams and creeks had crested and only mainstem rivers remained flooded.
April 2026	Tornado (EF1)	Amboy	-	The tornado moved into Blue Earth County from Watonwan County. Based on multiple storm chaser videos, ground contact was evident most of the way, but not always, as there were two or three occasions when ground circulation was not evident for one or two minutes. But some storm chaser video showed it to be entirely from the same parent circulation, hence one tornado. The tornado hit several farms. At one farm, both garage doors on either side of a house were buckled in, multiple trees were snapped or large branches broken. Two farm outbuildings had their garage doors blown out. Some shingles were also removed. Dozens of trees nearby were blown over. A small trailer was blown over 100 yards. Another farm had two small outbuildings that were destroyed and trees down or broken. The maximum wind speed was estimated at 90 mph. This was based on drone video and ground-based photos provided by the Blue Earth County Sheriff's Office.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Amboy	-	Power lines were blown down on the east side of Amboy.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Amboy	-	A few trees were blown down near Amboy.
June 2016	Flash Flood	Amboy	-	Several sources indicated that torrential rainfall caused roads to flood across parts of southwest and western Blue Earth County during the afternoon of Tuesday, June 14th. Road closures included 128 and 25 along Perch Creek and the Watonwan River.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Amboy	-	Several large trees were snapped in half in the town of Amboy.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Amboy	-	Several large tree branches were blown down near Amboy, Minnesota.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Amboy	-	A large tree was uprooted near Amboy, Minnesota.
September 2010	Heavy Rain	Amboy	-	A trained spotter measured 10.53 inches of rainfall between 6 pm and 8 am.
July 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Amboy	-	Very weak EF-0 tornado briefly touched down at the edge of a corn field along Blue Earth County Road 147, one half mile West of U.S. Highway 169. Damage was confined to crops.
June 2005	Heavy Rain	Amboy	-	A total of 1.8 inches of rain fell in one hour.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Amboy	-	Trees were downed and a roof was blown off.
April 2026	Hail	Amboy	-	no account filed
April 2022	Hail	Amboy	-	no account filed
July 2010	Funnel Cloud	Amboy	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Amboy	-	no account filed
September 2000	Hail	Amboy	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Amboy	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Blue Earth 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
Mapleton Public Library	5.4 miles	2009
Lucas Troendle House	5.5 miles	1980
Main Street Commercial Buildings	5.5 miles	1980
Dodd Ford Bridge	6.7 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001958 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Blue Earth County	All 28 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.
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.