St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

One of 48 National Register listings published here for Fergus County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 7724 Danvers Rd., Danvers, 59457
When was it listed? May 2014
Category. building
Census division. Denton
National Register reference number. 14000221 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in 2017, burning about 7 acres 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
Equipment and vehicle use	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
3 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	6.7 acres	Northeastern Land Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Fergus 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. Wenceslaus Catholic Church: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
	North Moccasin Mt	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Fergus County

Storms near this property

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Danvers, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Danvers	-	Ambient weather station. Sustained winds of 47 mph at the time of observation.
June 2025	Hail	Danvers	-	Report from social media. Ground was almost completely covered with hailstones ranging from quarter to golf ball size. Time estimated based on radar.
June 2025	Hail	Danvers	-	Patrol car traveling along Highway 81 received substantial hail damage. Location and time estimated based on radar.
May 2020	Hail	Danvers	-	Estimated quarter size hail. Time also estimated based on radar.
July 2019	Hail	Danvers	-	Public reported golf ball sized hail and crop damage.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Danvers	-	Strong winds measuring 52KT (60MPH) were reported 8 miles SE of Danvers, MT.
August 2003	Hail	Danvers	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Danvers	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Danvers	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fergus 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 14000221 in Record Group 79.
Fergus County	All 48 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.