St. Lawrence Catholic Church

Built in 1892 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Lawrence Catholic Church is a historic church located in Stangelville, Wisconsin. Therese de Lisieux, based in Denmark, which continues to use the church as a worship space.”
Wikipedia article St. Lawrence Catholic Church (Stangelville, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Kewaunee County · listed in 1989 · category: District · built in 1892, Gothic Revival.

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 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of WI 163 and County Hwy. J, Stangelville, 54208
When was it listed? February 1989
Category. district
Town. Franklin town
When was it built? 1892
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 89000056 - 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

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of St. Lawrence Catholic Church between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 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
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
30 July 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	27
13 June 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	115418
8 May 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	15
29 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	14
17 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	F200044
5 November 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2000164

Every fire recorded in Kewaunee County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of St. Lawrence Catholic Church: 18 past producers, 13 occurrences. None of them 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Boulanger Construction Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Cherneyville Road Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Collegiate Road Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
D Cherney Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
D Thielbar Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Delleman Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Duescher Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
E Brusky Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
E Seidl Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
East Krok Gravel Deposit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Kewaunee County

Storms near this property

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stangelville, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Stangelville	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Stangelville. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2017	Hail	Stangelville	-	Quarter size hail fell in Stangelville.
July 2012	Hail	Stangelville	-	Quarter size hail fell southeast of Pilsen.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Stangelville	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Stangelville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kewaunee 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Pilgrim Family Farmstead	2.9 miles	1979
	George Halada Farmstead	4.2 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89000056 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kewaunee County	All 13 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.