Built in 1874 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
From the record
“Salem Evangelical Church, also known as the Ragatz Church or Salem United Methodist Church of Honey Creek Township, is a historic church building at the intersection of County Highway PF and Church Road in Plain, Wisconsin. The Gothic Revival church was built in 1875.”
Wikipedia article Salem Evangelical Church (Plain, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 58 National Register listings published here for Sauk County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1874, Gothic Revival.
National Register reference number.86003576- 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Salem Evangelical Church
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 123 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Equipment and vehicle use
52
Debris and open burning
44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
13
Arson/incendiarism
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Smoking
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Salem Evangelical Church: 2 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. 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
Plain, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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.
This tornado lasted less than a minute and resulted in only some minor tree damage. The starting and ending locations, with respect to lat/long pairs of numbers, were 43.26431/-90.07778 and 43.26410/-90.07033, respectively. DI #27 (TH), DOD2. Maximum wind speed about 80 mph. Average path width was about 15 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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