Built in 1855 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
From the record
“Heart Prairie Lutheran Church of Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States, was a historic church organized in 1844 by pioneer Lutheran minister, Claus Lauritz Clausen.”
Wikipedia article Heart Prairie Lutheran Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 50 National Register listings published here for Walworth County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1855, Greek Revival architecture.
National Register reference number.74000133- 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
1 since 2020
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Heart Prairie Lutheran Church
in 2020, burning under an acre 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
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Heart Prairie Lutheran Church: 2 past producers, 1 producer.
1 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Whitewater, the town this property stands in, in 48 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 28 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 lightning.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding across a good part of Walworth County. Water depths on road surfaces reached 3 feet or more and there were gravel washouts. State Highway 59 was closed in Whitewater. Some farm fields remained flooded into early July. The breakdown for residential home losses were: 10 with minor damage (total of about $50 thousand in damage). There were no business losses. Crop losses were estimated at $1 million. Public sector damage was about $100 thousand.
Several rounds of thunderstorms with heavy rains on top of a saturated ground resulted in scattered flash flood events across the entire county of Walworth. Fast-flowing water reached depths of 6 inches to 2 feet at the following locations: STH 11 just east of STH 89 (about 3N of Darien), Plank Road just northeast of Elkhorn, Highway 12 and Potter Road, CTH L near East Troy, and several roads around Richmond. Johnson Creek and Turtle Creek areas between Richmond and I-43 exceeded flood stage. At least a couple dozen homes had water damage to basement contents, or sewage backups. Two basement walls of a home in the Civil Town of Lafayette, or about 2 miles east-northeast of Elkhorn, collapsed. Some soil erosion and minor crop damage were noted in the county. A couple minor landslides occurred along the shoreline of Geneva Lake.||August, 2007, rainfall totals include: 12.83 in Genoa City, and 12.67 in Whitewater.
A considerable number of trees and limbs down in Whitewater. Some trees or limbs down on homes and vehicles. Roads were closed due to the large number of trees blocking the roads. No electricity into the next day with schools cancelled. A corn dryer on Howard Road was disconnected from its gas line, thereby causing a fire.
A swath of thundersrtorm wind damaged affected northwest Walworth County. The swath was about 4 miles wide. At least 200 trees were uprooted in the Whitewater area, and two vehicles ($estimated $10K in damage) were damaged by tree debris. The tree debris also knocked out a couple feeder power-lines that resulted in 3800 customers losing electrical power. This swath started in northeast Rock County and ended in southeast Jefferson County.
A trained spotter reported trees downed and roof damage caused by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph (52 knots) along a path from Whitewater to 1 mile east of Whitewater.
Some fast moving waters flowing over county roads in the township of Walworth. Water depths of 1 to 2 feet were reported. A couple gravel shoulder washouts were noted.
This tornado is a continuation of the Jefferson County tornado. Once it crossed the Jefferson/Walworth County line about 7 miles east-northeast of Whitewater, or about 1 mile west of CTH H, this tornado continued east-southeast and dissipated a short time later 3 miles north-northwest of La Grange. Only tree damage was noted. Average path width was about 100 yards.
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.
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.
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