St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church

Built in 1901 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Peter's Roman Catholic Church is a Neogothic-styled church built in 1901 in the small farming community of Ashton, Wisconsin in the town of Springfield, Dane County, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church (Ashton, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1901, Colonial Revival architecture.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. W I K, Ashton, 53562
When was it listed? September 1980
Category. building
Town. Springfield town
When was it built? 1901
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture, Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 80000130 - 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 116 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
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
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	246
29 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19429
6 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	342
17 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	8.5 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	WHIPPORWILL
15 June 2020	Smoking	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	305
14 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	304
27 May 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.2 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	215

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church: 6 producers, 3 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Essers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Westport Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Yahara Materials Company Kipley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ziegler Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Frank H Raemisch and Sons Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Middleton-Watson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Northwestern Stone	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Zander Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Zeigler Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this property

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashton, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2017: 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
July 2017	Hail	Ashton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dane 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
Middleton Depot, Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad	3.4 miles	1999
Dr. Newman C. Rowley House	3.5 miles	1999
East End Historic District	3.6 miles	2003
First Lutheran Church	4.5 miles	1988
Thorstrand	4.5 miles	1980
Herbert Jacobs Second House	4.6 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80000130 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dane County	All 238 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.