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Photograph of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church
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St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Peter's Roman Catholic Church is a historic church on Ash Street in Lindsay, Cooke County, Texas.”

Wikipedia article St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church (Lindsay, Texas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Cooke 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 8 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Ash St., Lindsay, 76250
  • When was it listed? May 1979
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Churches with Decorative Interior Painting TR
  • Census division. Muenster
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture, Romanesque architecture
  • Architect. F.A. Ludewig
  • National Register reference number. 79002927 - 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

135 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church between 2005 and 2020, burning about 988 acres in total. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Equipment and vehicle use37
Debris and open burning35
Natural8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1951 CR 415
27 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCIRCLE DRIVE
15 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 327 & 306
12 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 3108
11 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 327
1 September 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 150

Every fire recorded in Cooke County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Erlandson Const Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Cooke County

Storms near this property

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lindsay, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 20 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 tornado, 5 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011HailLindsay$75,000Multiple reports of hail between the size of nickels to baseballs was reported in Lindsay for over 20 minutes.
April 2025LightningLindsay$50,000Lightning struck a home in Lindsay, causing a small fire.
May 2015Flash FloodLindsay$50,000The Cooke County Fire Department performed water rescues on Highway 82 approximately 1 mile west of Lindsay, TX.
April 2008HailLindsay$25,000Car windows were busted out north of Sivelle Bend due to hail.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindLindsay$20,000Gutters and pieces of siding were torn off a home in Lindsay. A glass table was also picked up, shattered, and blown into a pool.
April 1996Tornado (F0)Lindsay$15,000no account filed
April 2019HailLindsay$10,000A trained spotter reported golf ball size hail in the city of Lindsay, TX.
April 1996Tornado (F0)Lindsay$10,000no account filed
April 1996Tornado (F0)Lindsay$8,000no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLindsay$5,000Broadcast media reported a cattle trailer blown over and large trees snapped in Lindsay, TX.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindLindsay$5,000Trees, power lines, and utility poles were knocked down East of Lindsay and into parts of Gainesville. The local newspaper also reported large trees down and snapped power poles at several locations in and around Lindsay.
April 2011HailLindsay$5,000Tennis ball size hail was reported 4 miles north-northeast of Lindsay.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindLindsay$4,000A 63 mph wind gust was measured in Lindsay.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindLindsay$2,000Power lines were blown down by high winds.
January 2020Flash FloodLindsay-Highway 82 between Lindsey and Muenster was closed due to high water. Nearly 5 inches of water fell in parts of the county causing additional flooding of county roads.
April 2019HailLindsay-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail approximately 2 miles west of the city of Lindsay, TX.
May 2017HailLindsay-Fire and rescue reported quarter-sized hail near the intersection of Main Street and Pecan Street in the city of Lindsay, TX.
March 2016HailLindsay-Hail up to the size of pennies was covering the ground at FM 3108 and CR 3629 south of Lindsay.
May 2015Flash FloodLindsay-Emergency management reported a high water rescue on Highway 82 just west of Lindsay, TX. Many other roads were experiencing high water.
August 2012HailLindsay-One-inch diameter hail was reported.
April 2011HailLindsay-Quarter sized hail fell in Lindsay and northwest of Gainesville.
April 2011HailLindsay-Nickel sized hail fell on the north side of Lindsay, which is near Gainesville Municipal Airport.
May 2011HailLindsay-Half dollar sized hail was reported 1 mile southwest of Lindsay.
September 2010Tornado (EF0)Lindsay-A trained spotter reported a tornado just north of Lindsay. No damage was reported.
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Lindsay-Brief touchdown just north of Lindsay. No damage reported.
June 2007Flash FloodLindsay-Numerous roads were closed near Lindsay including CR 303, CR 460, Cheney Road, and Chapparal Lane.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLindsay-Numerous trees down.
March 2000Tornado (F0)Lindsay-A brief touchdown was reported near Lindsay. No damage.
May 1997Flash FloodLindsay-Water was reported over Highway 82 between Lindsay and Muenster.
April 2015HailLindsay-no account filed
April 2011HailLindsay-no account filed
November 2006HailLindsay-no account filed
November 2006Thunderstorm WindLindsay-no account filed
April 2003HailLindsay-no account filed
May 2000HailLindsay-no account filed
December 1997HailLindsay-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindLindsay-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindLindsay-no account filed
April 1996HailLindsay-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindLindsay-no account filed
April 1996HailLindsay-no account filed
August 1994HailLindsay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cooke 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
Cooke County Courthouse4.7 miles1991
E.P. and Alice Bomar House4.9 miles2004
William and Anna Davis House5.0 miles1984
Santa Fe Passenger Depot5.0 miles1983
Cloud-Stark House5.1 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79002927 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cooke CountyAll 8 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.
  • 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.