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African Church

Built in 1855. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“African Church, also known as the A.M.E. Charles, is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 554 Madison Street in St.”

Wikipedia article African Church (St. Charles, Missouri), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for St. Charles County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1855.

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. 554 Madison St., St. Charles, 63301
  • When was it listed? November 1980
  • Category. building
  • Township. Lindenwood township
  • When was it built? 1855
  • National Register reference number. 80004366 - 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

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of African Church in 2003, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
23 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in St. Charles County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of African Church: 9 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Thomas Mine #2ClayPast Producer
Sand PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crystal Springs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Missouri Pacific Rr Co.QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
St Charles Quarry - PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
St Charles Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Charles 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

6 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
Midtown Neighborhood Historic District0.1 miles2014
Marten-Becker House0.2 miles1979
Dr. John H. Stumberg House0.3 miles1978
Old City Hall0.4 miles1980
St. Charles Historic District (Boundary Increase II)0.4 miles1991
St. Charles Odd Fellows Hall0.4 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80004366 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Charles CountyAll 40 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.