Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
“Stephen is a historic Roman Catholic church building in St. It is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Cloud.”
Wikipedia article Church of St. Stephen (St. Stephen, Minnesota), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 36 National Register listings published here for Stearns County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
This property stands in Brockway Township. History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Brockway Township - 1,540 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Church of St. Stephen-Catholic between 1992 and 2019, burning about 113 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 | 23 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 September 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 August 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 August 1994 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1.1 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 July 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Church of St. Stephen-Catholic: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benton County Marl Bed | Limestone, General | Occurrence |
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.
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82003059 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Stearns County | All 36 listed properties in this county. |
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