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Photograph of St. Andrew's Church
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St. Andrew's Church

Built in 1901 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“Andrew's Church is a historic Roman Catholic church in LeRoy, Wisconsin, United States. The Gothic Revival church was designed by architect Anton Dohmen and built 1899-1901, largely by parishioners.”

Wikipedia article St. Andrew's Church (LeRoy, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Dodge County · listed in 2010 · category: Building · built in 1901, Gothic Revival.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. W3081 Co. Hwy Y, LeRoy, 53048
  • When was it listed? January 2010
  • Category. building
  • Town. Leroy town
  • When was it built? 1901
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 09001295 - 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

4,088 words

This property stands in Leroy Town. The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, 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 Leroy Town - 4,088 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of St. Andrew's Church between 1994 and 2020, burning about 747 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHoricon National Wildlife RefugeGRINDER WF
15 September 2011Debris and open burning1.5 acresHoricon National Wildlife RefugeSOUTH POINT WF
16 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreHoricon National Wildlife RefugeBRUMMOND WF
22 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresHoricon National Wildlife RefugeHODGE WF
14 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHoricon National Wildlife RefugeTRUCK WF
13 June 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHoricon National Wildlife RefugeFRAG WF
12 June 2012Fireworksunder an acreHoricon National Wildlife RefugeBUD COOK WF
9 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Dodge County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of St. Andrew's Church: 4 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Calcium, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Oakfield QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Western Lime-Knowles QuarryCalciumProducer
El Dais Stone Company PlantStonePast Producer
Farmersville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Farmersville QuarryStoneUnknown
Lehner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Dodge County

Storms near this property

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names LeRoy, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLeroy-Horicon RAWS site. South to southeast wind gust of 73 mph.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLeroy-Measured 61 mph at Horicon Marsh RAWS site.
March 2000HailLeroy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dodge 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

6 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
White Limestone School5.3 miles1976
Beaumont Hotel5.4 miles1988
Hollenstein Wagon and Carriage Factory5.5 miles1979
Main Street Historic District5.5 miles1995
W. H. Boller Meat Market and Residence5.6 miles1994
Widmer' s Cheese Cellars6.3 miles2025

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 09001295 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dodge CountyAll 36 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.