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Photograph of Lutheran Indian Mission
Photograph by Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lutheran Indian Mission

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

From the record

“Lutheran Indian Mission is a historic church in Gresham, Wisconsin, United States. The Mission church and school was built in 1901 by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod to serve Stockbridge Indians.”

Wikipedia article Lutheran Indian Mission, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Shawano County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1901, Gothic Revival.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NE of Gresham on WI G, Gresham, 54128
  • When was it listed? October 1980
  • Category. building
  • Town. Red Springs town
  • When was it built? 1901
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 80000195 - 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Lutheran Indian Mission between 1992 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use15
Fireworks13
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Other causes2
Natural1

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
9 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMenominee TribeVV WEST
16 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2018Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018131
9 July 2009Recreation and ceremony2.1 acresMenominee TribeHAPPY HOUSE

Every fire recorded in Shawano County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lutheran Indian Mission: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gresham Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
O and S PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Shawano County PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Shawano County

Storms near this property

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gresham, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindGresham$5,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindGresham$1,000no account filed
June 2017Tornado (EF0)Gresham-A weak tornado briefly touched down in an open field near the Shawano/Menominee County line. The tornado was photographed.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGresham-Thunderstorm winds downed trees around Gresham.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindGresham-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Red Springs Township.
June 2007HailGresham-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGresham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shawano 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80000195 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Shawano CountyAll 6 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.