Mary Queen of Heaven Roman Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. N. First and B St., Sprague, 99032
When was it listed? April 1990
Category. building
Census division. Odessa
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 90000675 - 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

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Mary Queen of Heaven Roman Catholic Church between 1993 and 2020, burning about 16,404 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Firearms and explosives use	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Debris and open burning	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
12 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,783 acres	Spokane District	WILLIAMS LAKE RD
11 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Spokane District	AIRPORT PARCEL
9 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Spokane District	BARN
6 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge	I-90 REST STOP
6 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	240 acres	Spokane District	SPRAGUE
31 August 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	30 acres	Spokane District	WELL RD 2
23 August 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	846 acres	Spokane District	SPRAGUE 2
20 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge	EXIT 245

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Mary Queen of Heaven Roman Catholic Church: 9 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Roth Rock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Rothrock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Pit Lco-Gp-292	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Underwood Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit El	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this property

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sprague, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Sprague	$10,000	power lines down in RV park
May 2017	Funnel Cloud	Sprague	-	A funnel cloud was reported appending from a weak thunderstorm just west of Sprague.
June 2009	Flash Flood	Sprague	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Sprague	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000675 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lincoln County	All 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.