Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge

Built in 1897 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Svenska Mission Kyrka I Sodre Maple Ridge is a historic church in rural Maple Ridge Township, Minnesota, United States. It is situated on the west side of County Road 1 near the community of Braham, Minnesota.”
Wikipedia article Svenska Mission Kyrka I Sodre Maple Ridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Isanti County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1897, Gothic Revival.

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. 1, Brahm, 55080
When was it listed? July 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Isanti County MRA
Township. Maple Ridge township
When was it built? 1897
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 80002077 - 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 169 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning	48
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Arson/incendiarism	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 June 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 June 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 June 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 May 1994	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 May 2018	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 May 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire 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

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	West Riverside School	7.0 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002077 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Isanti County	All 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.