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Photograph of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
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St. John the Baptist Catholic Church

Built in 1857 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church in Johnsburg in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. The church is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee.”

Wikipedia article St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Johnsburg, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Fond du Lac County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1857, Romanesque 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Off WI Q, Johnsburg, 53049
  • When was it listed? October 1980
  • Category. building
  • Town. Taycheedah town
  • When was it built? 1857
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 80000137 - 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

6,126 words

This property stands in Taycheedah Town. The History of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, published 1880; Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, Past and Present, published 1912 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

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 Taycheedah Town - 6,126 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in 2018, burning about 30 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/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018053
24 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018057
18 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018040
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018037
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources38
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018036
25 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018035

Every fire recorded in Fond du Lac County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church: 3 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Silica QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Abler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Elmer Fuhrmann PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
John L. Schmitz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fond du Lac County

Storms near this property

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Johnsburg, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2014Thunderstorm WindJohnsburg$10,000Two electrical wooden poles blown over by downburst winds.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindJohnsburg$5,000A storage shed was destroyed.
August 2021Heavy RainJohnsburg-Some flooding of roads in the Marytown area.
July 2020HailJohnsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fond du Lac 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

2 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Club Harbor2.8 miles1980
Palm Tree Road Bridge7.7 miles2022

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80000137 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fond du Lac CountyAll 51 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.