Weld County Courthouse

Built in 1917 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Weld County Courthouse, at 9th St. and 9th Ave. in Greeley, Colorado, is a Classical Revival-style building built in 1917. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.”
Wikipedia article Weld County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Weld County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1917, Neoclassical 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 9th St. and 9th Ave., Greeley, 80631
When was it listed? January 1978
Category. building
Census division. Greeley
When was it built? 1917
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 78000886 - 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

468 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 468 fires within 5 miles of Weld County Courthouse between 2008 and 2020, burning about 279 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined	392
Arson/incendiarism	20
Smoking	18
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Fireworks	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Debris and open burning	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
7 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Evans Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Evans Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
7 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	GREELEY
6 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	GREELEY
4 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	GREELEY
30 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	GREELEY

Every fire recorded in Weld County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Weld County Courthouse: 15 occurrences, 15 producers, 3 past producers. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Iron. 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	Recorded
Great Western Sugar Co	Iron	Producer
Unknown	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Unknown	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Unknown	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Weld County

Storms near this property

60 of 139 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greeley, the town this property stands in, in 139 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 102 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 9 lightning, 3 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 2009	Lightning	Greeley	1 hurt	A 41-yr old man was injured when he was struck by lightning on a golf course in Greeley. He was was struck on the 13th hole and suffered burns to his body, but was alert and concious when paramedics arrived.
May 2024	Flood	Greeley	$3,400,000	Multiple road closures occurred downtown Greeley due to flooding. These included 9th and 10th streets between 10th avenue and 14th avenue, 11th avenue from 8th street to 11th street, and 8th avenue from 10th street to 12th street. As of June 10th, 279 personal properties and businesses have been included in the report (disaster declaration), as well as 77 government buildings and public infrastructure, totaling approximately $3.4 million in damages from the storm.
June 1997	Hail	Greeley	$3,100,000	Large hail, up to golfball size, hammered the Greeley area causing extensive damage. Estimates included $2.25 million to homes with another $840,000 in automobile claims.
July 2001	Hail	Greeley	$2,000,000	Heavy rain, large hail and intense thunderstorm winds occurred in Greeley and vicinity. At least 50 trees were knocked down damaging cars and homes. Scattered power outages affected approximately 10,000 homes and businesses. A 341-ft radio tower was also blown down, knocking a local radio station off the air. In central Greeley, 10 garden level apartments were flooded at the Brentwood apartment complex. Extensive crop damage was reported in La Salle, Greeley, Milliken and Platteville. Approximately 20-30 percent of the crops in the area were damaged.
May 1997	Hail	Greeley	$2,000,000	no account filed
July 2001	Flash Flood	Greeley	$600,000	Anywhere from 3 to 5 inches of rainfall reportedly fell in the Greeley area in less the 2 hours. As a result, several roads were inundated with up to 2 feet of water and many basements of homes and businesses were flooded. In the basement of Greeley City Hall, several boxes of documents dating back to the 1800's were drenched in the floodwaters. The roof of a local business collapsed during the deluge. Approximately 2300 homes and businesses in town suffered electrical outages.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Greeley	$50,000	Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Greeley. The fire department had to close several streets and conduct multiple rescues.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Greeley	$50,000	no account filed
June 1996	Lightning	Greeley	$50,000	no account filed
July 2001	Lightning	Greeley	$40,000	Lightning sparked a fire to a Greeley residence.
May 2000	Lightning	Greeley	$28,000	Lightning ignited a fire in the attic of a mobile home in Greeley. The damage to the home was contained mainly to the attic, but there was some minor smoke and water damage throughout the rest of the residence.
August 2000	Lightning	Greeley	$25,000	Lightning struck a home, damaging the attic. Scattered power outages were also reported throughout Greeley. In addition, heavy rain that accompanied the thunderstorms caused minor street flooding in and around the city.
August 2016	Hail	Greeley	$15,000	Large hail dented cars, damaged shingles and broke windows.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Greeley	$13,000	no account filed
May 2017	Lightning	Greeley	$5,000	Windsor-Severance Fire Protection District had multiple reports of lightning strikes, including one that hit near Windsor Middle School and set off the school's fire alarms.
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Greeley	$500	Severe thunderstorm winds rumbled across portions of the northern foothills and the northeast plains. The storms produced wind gusts averaging 65 mph and hail up to dime size. Wind gusts to 77 mph (67 knots) were reported in Brighton at 640 pm and Platteville at 725 pm. Numerous trees and power poles were downed by the winds. One power pole fell onto spectators at a high school graduation ceremony in Commerce City (7 miles northeast of Denver), injuring 6 people. In Greeley, the winds blew over 100 feet of wrought iron fence, which was anchored in concrete. Trees fell onto a home and a bank in Greeley. In Fort Lupton, trees fell onto two parked cars, knocking out the windshields. Lightning struck and injured a man in Loveland (12 miles south southeast of Fort Collins), while he was working on his car.
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Greeley	$500	Severe thunderstorm winds rumbled across portions of the northern foothills and the northeast plains. The storms produced wind gusts averaging 65 mph and hail up to dime size. Wind gusts to 77 mph (67 knots) were reported in Brighton at 640 pm and Platteville at 725 pm. Numerous trees and power poles were downed by the winds. One power pole fell onto spectators at a high school graduation ceremony in Commerce City (7 miles northeast of Denver), injuring 6 people. In Greeley, the winds blew over 100 feet of wrought iron fence, which was anchored in concrete. Trees fell onto a home and a bank in Greeley. In Fort Lupton, trees fell onto two parked cars, knocking out the windshields. Lightning struck and injured a man in Loveland (12 miles south southeast of Fort Collins), while he was working on his car.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Greeley	$500	Thunderstorm winds, gusting to 74 mph (61 knots), knocked down power poles and broke tree limbs in Greeley, which disrupted power for four hours.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Greeley	-	Straight-line winds downed a large tree limb at the University of Northern Colorado. Power lines were also downed in northeast Greeley.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Greeley	-	Damaging microburst winds uprooted some trees.
August 2009	Hail	Greeley	-	Large hail broke out skylights in several recreational vehicles at an RV and trailer park in Greeley. Vehicles in several car dealerships in Greeley were damaged as well. The combination of heavy rain and hail also caused extensive street flooding. City Hall in Greeley reported minor flooding. Several basements were also flooded.
April 2003	Lightning	Greeley	-	Lightning struck an oil tank and sparked an oil fire. The fire however was quickly extinguished.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Greeley	-	Strong thunderstorm winds below the roofs of a barn and shed.
June 1995	Hail	Greeley	-	Brief touchdown in open field.
June 1995	Tornado (F0)	Greeley	-	A tornado made numerous brief touchdowns in a one mile path.
May 1993	Hail	Greeley	-	Thunderstorms dropped dime-size hail in Greeley and caused a brief power outage in town.
July 2025	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
July 2025	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
July 2025	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
July 2025	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
July 2025	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
July 2025	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
August 2023	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
August 2023	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
July 2021	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Greeley	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Greeley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Weld 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
Greeley Downtown	under 500 feet	2008
Greeley Masonic Temple	0.1 miles	2004
Greeley Tribune Building	0.2 miles	2007
First Baptist Church	0.2 miles	1987
Greeley High School and Grade School	0.2 miles	1981
Greeley Union Pacific Railroad Depot	0.2 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000886 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Weld County	All 36 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.