St. John of God Roman Catholic Church, Convent, and School
Built in 1891 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
From the record
“John of God Roman Catholic Church, Convent, and School is a historic church near the unincorporated community of Boltonville in the Town of Farmington, Wisconsin. The church was built from Cream City brick in 1891, although the congregation has existed since the 1850s.”
Wikipedia article St. John of God Roman Catholic Church, Convent, and School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 30 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1891, Gothic Revival.
National Register reference number.79000117- 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
11 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 11 fires within 5 miles of St. John of God Roman Catholic Church, Convent, and School
between 2002 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning
7
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
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
1 working within 5 miles of St. John of God Roman Catholic Church, Convent, and School: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Kewaskum, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 lightning, 1 tornado.
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.
A trained spotter reported large hail, between 1 1/4 inch and 1 1/2 inch in diameter that fell in Kewaskum. The 5-8 minute hail storm was the worst to hit Kewaskum in many years. Roughly 200 vehicles suffered damage from the hail, as well as many homes, condos, apartments and outdoor equipment. Hail damage to vehicles was about $250,000, and about $1.75 M to buildings and equipment. This information was supplied by local auto-body shops and insurance companies and is a broad estimate.
During the pre-dawn hours, lightning struck a telephone pole behind the Police Department, damaging an outdoor siren, and several pieces of computer equipment.
This tornado (80-90 mph) was a continuation of the tornado that moved east-southeast from the area southwest of Campbellsport in southern Fond du Lac County. Originally this tornado was rated as F1 in Fond du Lac County, but after crossing the Washington/Fond du Lac County line near the intersection of Lake Bernice Dr. and St. Kilian Dr. it weakened to F0 status. It finally dissipated 1.5 miles northwest of Kewaskum, north of STH 28 and west of STH 45. Mainly light tree and crop 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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