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Reformed Presbyterian Church of Vernon

Built in 1854 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Vernon is a historic church in the Town of Vernon in southeastern Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States. Built in 1853, and formerly a congregation of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1999.”

Wikipedia article Reformed Presbyterian Church of Vernon, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 153 National Register listings published here for Waukesha County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1854, Greek Revival architecture.

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 2 buildingss, 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. W234 S7710 big Bend Rd., Vernon, 53103
  • When was it listed? January 1999
  • Category. building
  • Village. Big Bend village
  • When was it built? 1854
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 98001595 - 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

10,737 words

This property stands in Big Bend Village. The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880 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 Big Bend Village - 10,737 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

30 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Reformed Presbyterian Church of Vernon between 2010 and 2020, burning about 223 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources453
9 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources186
4 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources407
7 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2265
6 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2244
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources140
30 July 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources417
15 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources367

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Reformed Presbyterian Church of Vernon: 7 producers, 1 past producer. 7 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Buege Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hales Corners PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kohler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Park View Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pit 14 and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Valley BlacktopSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Valley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Valley Pit Hillview S & GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this property

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vernon, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2015Thunderstorm WindVernon$1,000Several large branches down along Oakdale Drive.
April 2025HailVernon-no account filed
June 2022HailVernon-no account filed
August 2013HailVernon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waukesha 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
Haseltine Cobblestone House1.5 miles1980
Weston's Antique Apple Orchard3.5 miles1996
Freewill Baptist Church3.6 miles1998
Muskego State Graded School4.4 miles2019
Carl and Therese Schauwitzer House4.5 miles2013
Barney House5.2 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98001595 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Waukesha CountyAll 153 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.