Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church Complex

Built in 1904. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church Complex in Bow Valley, Nebraska was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. The church, built in 1903, is massive relative to the small size of the Bow Valley community.”
Wikipedia article Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church Complex (Bow Valley, Nebraska), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Cedar County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1904.

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 5 buildingss, 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 106 W. 889th Rd., Bow Valley, 68739
When was it listed? July 2000
Category. building
Precinct. Precinct 4
When was it built? 1904
National Register reference number. 00000765 - 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

12 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church Complex between 2006 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	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 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
19 July 2017	Natural	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
17 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
17 June 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
26 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
18 April 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 April 2011	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Cedar 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Bow Valley Mills	5.3 miles
Saints Philip and James Parochial School	5.6 miles	2003
Hartington Downtown Historic District	6.4 miles	2019
Hartington Hotel	6.5 miles	2003
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and Rectory	6.5 miles	2001
City Hall and Auditorium	6.5 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000765 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cedar County	All 12 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.