Fulton Congregational Church

Built in 1858 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Fulton Congregational Church is a historic church on Fulton Street in Fulton, Wisconsin, United States. It was built in 1858 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.”
Wikipedia article Fulton Congregational Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 141 National Register listings published here for Rock County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · built in 1858, Greek Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Fulton St., Fulton, 53534
When was it listed? June 1976
Category. building
Town. Fulton town
When was it built? 1858
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Italianate architecture
National Register reference number. 76000077 - 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

15,071 words

The chapter on Fulton Town in History of Rock County, and Transactions of the Rock County Agricultural Society and Mechanics' Institute, published 1856 names Fulton. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Tliis is a small village in the north-east comer of the town of Fulton. It has a steam saw mill in successful operation, one tavern, one grocery, two blacksmith shops, and eight dwelling houses. Goodrich's bridge crosses Rock river at this place.

Passage source: History of Rock County, and Transactions of the Rock County Agricultural Society and Mechanics' Institute, published 1856.

The village of Edgerton is located in the town of Fulton, one mile west of Rock river, on the line of the M. & M. R. R. A little over 2 years since, tlio Raili'oad reached this point; since which time has grown up a flourishing little town of 100 dwellings and 500 inhabitants.

Passage source: History of Rock County, and Transactions of the Rock County Agricultural Society and Mechanics' Institute, published 1856.

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 Fulton Town - 15,071 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

8 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Fulton Congregational Church between 2018 and 2020, burning about 12 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	4
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
26 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	201056
7 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1806391
2 June 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20561
9 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1904294
3 April 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20307
18 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1803204
15 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20231
7 November 2020	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	201206

Every fire recorded in Rock County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fulton Congregational Church: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Beggs Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Stearns Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Rock County

Storms near this property

3 since 2000

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

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Fulton	$2,000	no account filed
October 2018	Flood	Fulton	$1,000	The Yahara River at Fulton reached minor flood stage, cresting at 10.18 ft. the early morning of October 2nd. There is widespread agricultural and lowland flooding. A small park in Fulton is flooded.
April 2025	Hail	Fulton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rock 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Charles L. Culton House	3.5 miles	1977
Edgerton Depot	3.5 miles	1998
Gilley-tofsland Octagonal Barn	3.5 miles	1979
Pomeroy and Pelton Tobacco Warehouse	3.6 miles	1998
Fulton Street Historic District	3.6 miles	1999
Edgerton Post Office	3.6 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000077 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rock County	All 141 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.