Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Built in 1879 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a church complex off NE 56 in O'Connor, Nebraska. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.”
Wikipedia article Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (O'Connor, Nebraska), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Greeley County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1879, Romanesque Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Off NE 56, O'Connor, 68842
When was it listed? February 1984
Category. building
Precinct. Greeley precinct
When was it built? 1879
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 84002472 - 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

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary between 2007 and 2019, burning about 255 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 burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
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 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 March 2011	Debris and open burning	250 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 November 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Greeley 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Greeley County Courthouse	4.0 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84002472 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greeley County	All 6 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.