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Photograph of St. Peter's Church
Photograph by Shawn Conrad, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Peter's Church

Built in 1861. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Peter's Church is a Catholic Church located at 1010 Newark Drive, Town of Farmington, Wisconsin. It was built in 1861 by a congregation of German immigrant farmers.”

Wikipedia article St. Peter's Church (West Bend, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1861.

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. 1010 Newark Dr., West Bend, 53090
  • When was it listed? June 1983
  • Category. building
  • Town. Farmington town
  • When was it built? 1861
  • National Register reference number. 83003430 - 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

23 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of St. Peter's Church between 2002 and 2020, burning about 23 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
28 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources785
17 July 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19017
26 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20038
10 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001382
26 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources753
26 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources754
20 April 2020Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20027

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 St. Peter's Church: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lakeland SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
O and W Wash PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

58 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Bend, the town this property stands in, in 58 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 24 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 11 lightning, 4 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1999LightningWest Bend1 hurt, $35,000no account filed
July 1998LightningWest Bend$262,000no account filed
July 1997LightningWest Bend$150,000Lightning struck a business building and ignited an attic fire. Walls needed to reinforced and much of the business equipment was ruined.
October 2006LightningWest Bend$50,000Lightning struck a home's roof, resulting in an attic fire.
July 2010LightningWest Bend$20,000The West Bend Fire Department responded to four calls for trees on fire due to lightning strikes and power line damage due to lightning strikes, including near the intersection of CTH NN and Scenic Rd. in West Bend.
August 2001LightningWest Bend$17,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWest Bend$10,000Trees and power lines down on W. Decorah Road and Highland Drive. Roads were closed for debris removal.
September 2002LightningWest Bend$10,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindWest Bend$10,000no account filed
July 1997LightningWest Bend$10,000no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindWest Bend$9,000no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindWest Bend$7,000A large tree was uprooted and landed on a house. Some roof and porch damage.
May 2000LightningWest Bend$7,000no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWest Bend$5,000Trees down due to powerfule thunderstorm winds. One large tree branch damaged three parked vehicles in West Bend.
August 2004LightningWest Bend$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWest Bend$5,000no account filed
August 1996LightningWest Bend$5,000no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindWest Bend$4,000no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWest Bend$3,000Ornamental tree uprooted. Small garden shed destroyed near Allentown.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindWest Bend$3,000no account filed
June 1999HailWest Bend$3,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindWest Bend$3,000no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindWest Bend$2,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindWest Bend$2,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindWest Bend$1,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindWest Bend$1,000no account filed
April 2014HailWest Bend-Hail covering the ground.
April 2014HailWest Bend-Hail covering the ground.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindWest Bend-The peak thunderstorm wind gust of 74 mph (64 knots) was measured by a trained spotter in West Bend.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindWest Bend-Police officials reported considerable tree damage from thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 56 knots (65 mph). The AWOS at West Bend airport recorded a 60 mph (52 knot) wind gust at 350 am CDT.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindWest Bend-Powerful thunderstorm winds knocked down large trees.
April 2020HailWest Bend-no account filed
June 2016HailWest Bend-no account filed
April 2016HailWest Bend-no account filed
August 2015HailWest Bend-no account filed
August 2015HailWest Bend-no account filed
May 2014HailWest Bend-no account filed
June 2010HailWest Bend-no account filed
June 2010HailWest Bend-no account filed
June 2007Funnel CloudWest Bend-no account filed
June 2004HailWest Bend-no account filed
November 2003Heavy RainWest Bend-no account filed
May 2003HailWest Bend-no account filed
July 2003Funnel CloudWest Bend-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWest Bend-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWest Bend-no account filed
August 2003HailWest Bend-no account filed
August 2003Heavy RainWest Bend-no account filed
June 2002HailWest Bend-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindWest Bend-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWest Bend-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindWest Bend-no account filed
August 2001FloodWest Bend-no account filed
June 1999Funnel CloudWest Bend-no account filed
November 1999HailWest Bend-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWest Bend-no account filed
July 1996Funnel CloudWest Bend-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindWest Bend-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Lizard Mound State Park2.7 miles2023
Saxonia House3.4 miles2006
St. John of God Roman Catholic Church, Convent, and School4.2 miles1979
Gadow's Mill4.8 miles1974
Barton Historic District4.9 miles1992
Barton Elementary School5.0 miles2018

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83003430 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington CountyAll 30 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.