St. Augustine Catholic Church and Cemetery

Built in 1855 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Augustine Catholic Church and Cemetery is a historic church site at Co. Y and SR 33 in the Town of Trenton, Wisconsin, United States.”
Wikipedia article St. Augustine Catholic Church and Cemetery (Trenton, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1990 · category: Building · built in 1855, Romanesque Revival architecture.

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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Co. Hwy. Y 3 mi. S of jct. of Co. Hwy. Y and SR 33, Trenton, 53095
When was it listed? May 1990
Category. building
Town. Trenton town
When was it built? 1855
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 90000638 - 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

19 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of St. Augustine Catholic Church and Cemetery between 2018 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	1

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
25 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2018127
20 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2002606
8 June 2019	Smoking	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1901835
23 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	190704
26 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20038
26 May 2018	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	MUD LAKE BOARDWALK FIRE
4 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	190468
3 April 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	200365

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of St. Augustine Catholic Church and Cemetery: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Ciriak Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lakeland Site	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lane Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Maple Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
O and W Wash Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Rau Pit Number 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
St. Peter's Church	5.4 miles	1983
Tischer, Wilhelm Blacksmith Shop	6.8 miles	2023
Amity Leather Products Company Factory	7.3 miles	2002
Lizard Mound State Park	7.4 miles	2023
Leander F. Frisby House	7.5 miles	1985
Washington County Courthouse and Jail	7.5 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000638 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 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.