Photograph of St. Nicholas' Catholic Church — Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Nicholas Catholic Church and Rectory

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.

From the record

“Nicholas Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic church in Osgood, Ohio, United States. Built in the first years of the 20th century, it houses one of the newest parishes in a heavily Catholic region of far western Ohio, but it has been recognized as a historic site for its architecture.”
Wikipedia article St. Nicholas Catholic Church (Osgood, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 25 National Register listings in Darke County · listed in 1979 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. OH 705 and Washington St., Osgood, 45351
When was it listed? 1979-07-26
Category. building
Also known as. Cross-Tipped Churches of Ohio TR
Township. Patterson township
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 79002841 - 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.

The ground it stands on

3,412 words

This property stands in Patterson Township. The History of Darke County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Cities, Towns, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men;, published 1880 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Patterson Township - 3,412 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 44 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 44 specimens collected within 10 miles of St. Nicholas Catholic Church and Rectory between 1919 and 1943: 38 Animalia, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by H. Price, H.L. Lewis, Lewis H. L. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Tilletia laevis J.G.Kühn	1919	not recorded	Versailles
Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle	1919	s.n.	Versailles
Ustilago tritici (Bjerk.) Rostr.	1919	H.L. Lewis	Versailles
Puccinia graminis Pers.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Versailles
Puccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton	1919	Lewis H. L.	Versailles
Septoria tritici Roberge	1919	Lewis H. L.	Versailles
Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Wabash River, within Ex southeast Granville township, near Burkettsville, Granville township
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Wabash River, within Ex southeast Granville township, near Burkettsville, Granville township
Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Wabash River, within Ex southeast Granville township, near Burkettsville, Granville township
Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Wabash River, within Ex southeast Granville township, near Burkettsville, Granville township
Pimephales promelas promelas Rafinesque, 1820	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Wabash River, within Ex southeast Granville township, near Burkettsville, Granville township
Semotilus atromaculatus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Wabash River, within Ex southeast Granville township, near Burkettsville, Granville township

All 44 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osgood, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Osgood	$3,000	Trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Osgood	$2,000	Two trees were downed in Osgood.
June 1999	Hail	Osgood	-	Dime size hail was reported with a thunderstorm.
April 2020	Hail	Osgood	-	no account filed
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Osgood	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Darke 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.

From the nomination file

778 words on record

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 - 778 words, 7 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 79002841, 7 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

Listed places nearby

4 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
St. Louis Catholic Church and Rectory	4.2 miles	1979
St. Louis Catholic Church and Rectory	4.3 miles	1979
English, William, House	6.4 miles	1982
Holy Family Catholic Church	6.7 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002841 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Darke County	All 25 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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.