St. Joseph's Church-Catholic

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Joseph's Church-Catholic is a historic church on Main Street in Pierz, Minnesota, United States. It was built 1886-1888 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”
Wikipedia article St. Joseph's Church (Pierz, Minnesota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Morrison County · listed in 1985 · 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.
Listed as. St. Joseph's Church--Catholic - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Main St., Pierz, 56364
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. building
City. Pierz city
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 85001998 - 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

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of St. Joseph's Church-Catholic between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,516 acres in total. None started naturally. 46 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
Arson/incendiarism	46
Debris and open burning	33
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	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
4 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 July 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 July 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 July 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Morrison County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of St. Joseph's Church-Catholic: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Banach Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Morrison County

Storms near this property

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pierz, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail. 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
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Pierz	$500,000	The Pierz city garage on the north end of town was severely damaged due to severe straight-line winds.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Pierz	$25,000	A roof was blown off a building south of Pierz.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Pierz	$10,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down near Pierz, Minnesota.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Pierz	$5,000	Large tree branches blew down near Pierz and caused power outages as the branches landed on power lines.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Pierz	-	Multiple power lines were reported down near the intersection of 143rd St and 280th Ave, southeast of Pierz.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Pierz	-	Multiple trees up to two feet in diameter were toppled throughout the Pierz Trailer Park.
October 2022	Hail	Pierz	-	One storm in eastern Morrison County had a report of 3/4 inch hail as relayed via mPing.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Pierz	-	Several trees were also reported down in Pierz.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Pierz	-	There were several reports of downed trees and power lines from Pierz, to Hillman.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Pierz	-	A spotter measured a wind gust of 73 mph. A few trees were uprooted near the location of the measured wind gust.
August 2007	Hail	Pierz	-	Power out for several hours. Hail damaged vehicles and homes. Windows were broken.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Pierz	-	Tree limbs were downed.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Pierz	-	Trees felled.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Pierz	-	Few trees down. Estimated windspeed.
September 1998	Hail	Pierz	-	Windows shattered and buildings pockmarked. Hail size estimated.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Pierz	-	Trees and power lines down.
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Pierz	-	Strong thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large trees near Little Falls and Pierz.
August 2023	Hail	Pierz	-	no account filed
June 2022	Hail	Pierz	-	no account filed
July 2020	Hail	Pierz	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Pierz	-	no account filed
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Pierz	-	no account filed
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Pierz	-	no account filed
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Pierz	-	no account filed
September 2014	Hail	Pierz	-	no account filed
September 2014	Hail	Pierz	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Pierz	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Pierz	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Pierz	-	no account filed
September 2002	Hail	Pierz	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Pierz	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morrison 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001998 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Morrison County	All 15 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.
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.