Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.
From the record
“Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Dakota City, Nebraska, United States, is a Greek Revival church designed and built by Augustus T. It is believed to be the first Lutheran church built in Nebraska and is certainly the oldest Lutheran Church structure still standing in Nebraska.”
Wikipedia article Emmanuel Lutheran Church (Dakota City, Nebraska), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 4 National Register listings published here for Dakota County · listed in 1969 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.69000129- 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.
Court House. --For more than fifteen years the county records were scattered around in log cabins and rented houses. January 2, 186U, the county commissioners ordered that steps be taken for the Iniilding of a, C(Mirt house and jail, but the project failed for the want of sufficient funds. A special county election was held June 18, 1870, to vote on a proposition to bond the county for the erection of a !i^l5, 000 court house, $5,000 to be paid by Dakota City, at wliich time there were 170 votes for and 165 against bonds. Commissioners ordered bonds issued September 15, 1870,
Post Office. - The postmasters at Dakota City have been James W. Virtue, C. F. Eckiiart, Barnal)as Bates, Helen Bates, M. O. Ayres, Henry Herweg, D. C.Stinson and Mell A. Schmied. This is a postal note ;in<l money order ofKce. The post office was first kept in the Chihuahua House, then moved to a building opposite the Bates House on Broadway, then to a house east of the old Griffey residence, from here it was taken to C. F. Eckiiart's store, then to Bates House, to Col. B. Bates' residence on Walnut street, to M. O. Ayres* stores on Broadway, to Stinson & Herweg's stoi-e on corner of Broadway and Fifteenth street, tiien to its present location on corner of Broadway and Fourteenth street.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Emmanuel Lutheran Church
between 2003 and 2017, burning about 222 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined
4
Debris and open burning
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Emmanuel Lutheran Church: 1 unknown, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Dakota City, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2014: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood.
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.
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
2 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.
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.
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