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Photograph of St. John's Lutheran Church
Photograph by Elkman, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. John's Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“John's Lutheran Church is an historic church in Bradford Township, Minnesota, United States. The church was built by German immigrants, who were among the earliest settlers in Isanti County, Minnesota.”

Wikipedia article St. John's Lutheran Church (Isanti, Minnesota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Isanti 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Co. Hwy. 5, Isanti, 55040
  • When was it listed? July 1980
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Isanti County MRA
  • Township. Bradford township
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 80002072 - 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

210 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 210 fires within 5 miles of St. John's Lutheran Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 559 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 15 were 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 burning102
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use28
Arson/incendiarism15
Recreation and ceremony13
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Fireworks4
Smoking3
Natural2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2012Fireworksunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Isanti County

Storms near this property

48 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Isanti, the town this property stands in, in 48 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 25 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997Flash FloodIsanti$100,000Estimate of four inches of rain in less than one hour. Major damage to wastewater treatment facility under construction.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindIsanti$10,000Numerous reports of downed trees and power lines across southern Isanti County between Highway 47 and 65, north of 245 Street.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 65 mph downed a large tree across driveway.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Delayed report of multiple large trees down throughout Isanti, time estimated from radar.
August 2024Tornado (EF1)Isanti-A tornado developed in Anoka County and moved through portions of Oak Grove, St Francis, and East Bethel before crossing into Isanti County. In Isanti County, twofarm outbuildings weredestroyed and a pole barnsustained roof damage. Hundreds of trees were also broken or uprooted.
May 2022HailIsanti-There was a social media picture of 1.5 inch hail.
May 2022HailIsanti-There was a social media picture of golf ball size hail.
July 2020HailIsanti-There was a lot of smaller hail, but a few hail stones were as large as half dollar size.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Several trees were blown down in the city of Isanti.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Several large tree limbs were blown down near Isanti, Minnesota.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Several large trees were blown down south of Isanti.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Multiple trees were blown down near Isanti.
August 2009Heavy RainIsanti-A local observer measured 3.50 inches of rainfall in the past 12 hours.
August 2009Heavy RainIsanti-A local observer measured 3.50 inches of rainfall in the past 12 hours.
May 2008HailIsanti-Occurred at County road 5 and Whiskey.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Twenty inch diameter tree down across road.
June 2007HailIsanti-Occurred at the intersection of Highway 65 and County Road 5.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Oak tree blown down.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Tree toppled over road. Many 3 inch tree limbs down.
July 2006HailIsanti-Numerous small branches felled.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindIsanti-A tree was downed across County Road 7 about one mile north of County Road 5 just north of Spencer Brook.
June 2005HailIsanti-Dime sized hail was reported at Big Lake. The time was estimated.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Power lines were downed.
June 2002Tornado (F1)Isanti-Barn roof off, hundreds of trees toppled, few sheds down.
June 2002Flash FloodIsanti-Four inches of rain in less than two hours resulted in water two to three feet deep in the city of Isanti.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Trees down at County Roads 12 and 45.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Estimated winds, trees down.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Trees blown down. Gusts to 50 mph also reported in Cambridge.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindIsanti-Trees down. Also trees reported down at Cambridge state hospital.
May 2025HailIsanti-no account filed
August 2023HailIsanti-no account filed
May 2022HailIsanti-no account filed
September 2013HailIsanti-no account filed
July 2011HailIsanti-no account filed
July 2011HailIsanti-no account filed
July 2010Funnel CloudIsanti-no account filed
May 2008HailIsanti-no account filed
May 2008HailIsanti-no account filed
July 2007HailIsanti-no account filed
July 2007HailIsanti-no account filed
June 2007HailIsanti-no account filed
June 2006HailIsanti-no account filed
June 2005HailIsanti-no account filed
April 2004HailIsanti-no account filed
August 2004HailIsanti-no account filed
April 2002HailIsanti-no account filed
June 2002HailIsanti-no account filed
June 1998HailIsanti-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Isanti 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

5 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Edward Erickson Farmstead4.6 miles1980
Linden Barn5.6 miles1980
Isanti County Courthouse5.8 miles1980
West Riverside School6.1 miles1980
District No. 1 School7.7 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80002072 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Isanti CountyAll 9 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.
  • 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.