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Photograph of Our Lady of Loretto Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery
Photograph by Jeff the quiet, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Our Lady of Loretto Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery

Built in 1880 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Our Lady of Loretto Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery is a historic rural church on County Highway C, one mile west of Denzer in Honey Creek, Wisconsin, United States. It was built in 1880 as a mission church for German settlers and was added to the National Register in 1990.”

Wikipedia article Our Lady of Loretto Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Sauk County · listed in 1990 · category: District · built in 1880, 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 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Co. Hwy. C, 1 mi. W of Denzer, Honey Creek, 53951
  • When was it listed? March 1990
  • Category. district
  • Town. Honey Creek town
  • When was it built? 1880
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 90000378 - 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

924 words

This property stands in Honey Creek Town. Guide Book to the Wild & Romantic Scenery in Sauk County, Wisconsin, published 1873 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 Honey Creek Town - 924 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Our Lady of Loretto Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 use31
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHAPPY HILL WHEAT
1 August 2014Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOLD SPRINGS
20 July 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use22 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOLD SPRINGS WHEAT
6 May 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesELM ROAD FIRE
31 May 1998Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 May 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Sauk County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Our Lady of Loretto Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Denzer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sauk 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

5 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
Honey Creek Swiss Rural Historic District4.3 miles1990
Salem Evangelical Church4.8 miles1988
Freedom Mine5.5 miles2020
Harrisburg School6.9 miles2015
Steam Locomotive #13857.6 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90000378 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sauk CountyAll 58 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.