St. Michael Catholic Church Complex

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 316 specimens collected within 10 miles of St. Michael Catholic Church Complex between 1800 and 1974: 258 Animalia, 34 Fungi, 23 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Arden R. Gaufin and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Dryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.Gray	1898	Wetzstein, A.	Rich woods, New Bremen.
	Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt	1898	Wetzstein, A.	Rich woods. Minster, Ohio
	Equisetum arvense L.	1900	Wetzstein, A.	Along R.R. to N. Bremen, St. Marys.
	Mentha aquatica L.	1800	Ballenstedt, B.	Bremen: An der WÅmme in Oberneuland bei Bremen
	Geum urbanum L.	1883	Baßmann	Bremen: Vegesack, feuchtes, schattiges Gehîlz bei Holthorst, sehr selten
	Rubus idaeus L.	1889	Meyerholz	Bremen: auf Quellgrund, Torf u. Humus
	Lobelia dortmanna L.	1892	Wendelken	Bremen: Bremen-Lesum, Lesum
	Rubus condensatus P.J.Müll.	1892	Elmgoeth, Fr.	Niedersachsen: Soltau in der Lüneburger Heide
	unnamed	1897	WA Kellerman	Shelby County
	Carex shortiana Dewey & Torr.	1897	Wetzstein, A.
	Sorosporium reilianum (J.G.Kühn) McAlpine	1897	W. A. Kellerman
	Sphacelotheca reiliana (J.G.Kühn) G.P.Clinton	1897	Kellerman W. A.	Shelby Co.

All 316 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of St. Michael Catholic Church Complex: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Shelby County

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

• 1909 USGS Loramie quadrangle1:62500
• 1911 USGS Loramie quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Loramie quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
• 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Fort Loramie quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

When this property was proposed for the National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is, and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain. It is reproduced in full on its own page, word for word and never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s typewriter's.

The whole case file for this property - 1,601 words, 13 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 79002825, 13 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

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
	Zenas King Bowstring Bridge	2.6 miles	2021
	St. Patrick Catholic Church and Rectory	4.6 miles	1979
	St. Patrick Catholic Church and Rectory	4.6 miles	1979
	Sacred Heart of Jesus Rectory	6.3 miles	1979