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Photograph of Church of Our Most Merciful Saviour
Photograph by Ammodramus, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The Church of Our Most Merciful Saviour, also known as the Santee Mission, built in 1884, is a historic Carpenter Gothic style Episcopal church located on the Missouri River in the Santee Indian Reservation in Santee, Nebraska. Although its side windows are not arched, it otherwise exhibits all the common features of Carpenter Gothic churches: board and batten siding, lancet windows on the front along with a circular rosette window, belfry tower on the side and main entrance on the side though the belfry tower.”

Wikipedia article Church of Our Most Merciful Saviour (Santee, Nebraska), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Knox County · listed in 1972 · 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.
  • Address. On the Missouri River in the Santee Indian Reservation, Santee, 68724
  • When was it listed? March 1972
  • Category. building
  • Township. Valley township
  • National Register reference number. 72000754 - 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

8 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Episcopal Church between 2012 and 2020, burning about 2,758 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
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
1 August 2017Debris and open burning4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 July 2016Debris and open burning10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 April 2018Debris and open burning20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 April 2015Debris and open burning40 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 March 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 March 2012Debris and open burning2,464 acresWinnebago AgencySIX PACK
6 November 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution218 acresWinnebago AgencyCAMPBELL

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Storms near this property

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santee, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 11 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2010Flash FloodSantee$2,000Rainfall of 6 to 7 inches fell on Sept. 22nd which produced flash flooding along Bazile Creek reducing Highway 12 to one lane east of Niobrara.
July 2020HailSantee-Public reported quarter size hail at the Santee Tribe Museum. Another report said it was just smaller than a golf ball.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindSantee-Power lines and trees were blown down. Hail of unknown size was also reported.
June 2013HailSantee-The hail was mostly pea to dime-size but a few were around quarter-size.
April 2012Tornado (EF0)Santee-A brief rope tornado touchdown was observed just north of Santee.
March 2009Tornado (EF1)Santee-A tornado apparently touched down on the Nebraska side of the Missouri River south of Springfield, SD. The tornado caused some tree damage in the area.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindSantee-Law enforcement officials estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph in Santee.
June 2002HailSantee-Hail up to nickel size lasted 20 minutes near Santee.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindSantee-Thunderstorm wind gusts over 60 mph downed large tree limbs and broke a few windows on homes in Santee.
August 2016HailSantee-no account filed
July 2015HailSantee-no account filed
May 2011HailSantee-no account filed
April 2010HailSantee-no account filed
May 2004HailSantee-no account filed
June 2003HailSantee-no account filed
June 2003HailSantee-no account filed
June 2003HailSantee-no account filed
June 1998Funnel CloudSantee-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindSantee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Knox 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

5 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
Knox County Courthouse0.2 miles1990
Commercial Hotel, The7.8 miles1990
Z.C.B.J. Opera House7.9 miles1988
Winnetoon Jail7.9 miles1995
Winnetoon Public School8.0 miles2020

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 72000754 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Knox CountyAll 14 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.
  • 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.