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One of 16 National Register listings published here for Green Lake County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Methodist Episcopal Church
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 240 West 2nd St., Marquette, 53947
- When was it listed? February 2021
- Category. building
- Town. Marquette town
- National Register reference number. 100006107 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
99 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Methodist Episcopal Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 296 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Other causes | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | FRANKS DR |
| 21 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 September 2005 | Natural | 6.5 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | WICKS LANDING |
| 4 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | SOUTH PINE |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Methodist Episcopal Church: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecan Rhyolite Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Farris Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Stiffner Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
19 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marquette, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Marquette | $100,000 | A brief, weak, tornado damaged one home, one barn, and uprooted several trees. This tornado was embedded in a solid line of thunderstorms, and apparently formed on the left side of a pronounced downburst on the leading edge of the line. On the Milwaukee-Sullivan WSR-88D, a mesocyclone and tornado-vortex signature were observed. |
| April 2004 | Lightning | Marquette | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette | $10,000 | Scattered trees downed throughout the county. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette | $7,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette | $7,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette | $5,000 | A trained spotter reported trees downed by powerful thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 mph (56 knots) in the village of Marquette. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette | $3,000 | Two foot diameter trees knocked down. A downed branch shattered the rear window of a mini-van. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette | $500 | Tree branches snapped and a shed blown over near the inlet of Lake Puckaway. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette | - | A measured wind gust of 59 mph in Marquette near Puckaway Lake. |
| August 2018 | Tornado (EF1) | Marquette | - | Tornado was 1 of 19 tornadoes that occurred across central to east central Wisconsin on the afternoon of August 28th. This tornado went just south of Lake Puckaway. Widespread straight line winds caused significant tree and crop damage across the county as well. |
| August 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Marquette | - | Tornado was 1 of 19 tornadoes that occurred across central to east central Wisconsin on the afternoon of August 28th. This tornado went east-southeast of the Village of Marquette and was just west of 73. Widespread straight line winds caused significant tree and crop damage across the county as well. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Marquette | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Marquette | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Marquette | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Marquette | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Marquette | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Marquette | - | no account filed |
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
3 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Daniel and Caltherine Ketchum Cobblestone House | 0.2 miles | 2001 |
 | Princeton Downtown Historic District | 7.3 miles | 1997 |
| Princeton Downtown Historic District | 7.3 miles | 1997 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006107 in Record Group 79. |
| Green Lake County | All 16 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.