Cheyenne County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“The Cheyenne County Courthouse in Cheyenne Wells, Colorado is a Georgian Revival-style building that was built in 1908 and first used in 1909. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.”
Wikipedia article Cheyenne County Courthouse (Colorado), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Cheyenne County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.

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. 51 S. 1st St., Cheyenne Wells, 80810
When was it listed? July 1989
Category. building
Census division. Cheyenne Wells
Architectural style. Georgian architecture
National Register reference number. 89000997 - 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

30 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Cheyenne County Courthouse between 2010 and 2015, burning about 455 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Natural	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 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	CHEYENNE WELLS
2 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
7 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	CHEYENNE WELLS
21 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	CHEYENNE WELLS
14 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	CHEYENNE WELLS
14 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
30 June 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
28 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	CHEYENNE WELLS

Every fire recorded in Cheyenne County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cheyenne County Courthouse: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel, Sand
	Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cheyenne County

Storms near this property

60 of 209 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cheyenne Wells, the town this property stands in, in 209 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 121 hail, 58 thunderstorm wind, 17 tornado, 12 flash flood. 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
September 2016	Tornado (EF0)	Cheyenne Wells	$46,000	A landspout tornado developed west of Cheyenne Wells between CR 42 and CR 43 just north of Highway 40, slowly moving east. Minor damage was sustained to most houses from South 1st Street to South 2nd Street between West 14th and West 10th. Damage included shingles blown off roofs, a garage door blown inward, a piece of tin ripped off a metal shed, windows broken, and sections of privacy fence blown down. The most notable damage was a six car garage leveled due to the walls collapsing and a mature pine tree being uprooted. The tornado ended at West 10th Street.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	$35,500	Eight to ten inch diameter trees were reported down and power outages occurred across the town. A grain auger was damaged. The back window of an SUV was blown in and a pick-up truck was pushed into a ditch.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	$30,000	Severe wind gusts from a thunderstorm caused an estimated 20 trees to be blown down in Cheyenne Wells.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	$20,000	Thunderstorm wind damage was observed in Cheyenne Wells. A family member of an NWS employee lost their farm outbuilding. The Knights of Columbus building lost its roof. Law enforcement officials reported that a metal roof was blown over onto several vehicles in a parking lot.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	$6,000	A possible heat burst from high altitude blew a roof from a shed.
August 2019	Hail	Cheyenne Wells	$4,000	Hail ranged from quarter to golf ball size near Cheyenne Wells. Wind-driven hail reported broke several windows in the Cheyenne Wells area.
July 2019	Hail	Cheyenne Wells	$3,000	The Cheyenne county dispatch reported broken windows, rain gauges, small tree limbs down due to at least quarter size hail. They also reported larger hail stones but couldn't provide an estimate.
July 2020	Flash Flood	Cheyenne Wells	$2,500	Local law enforcement and a trained storm spotter provided several reports of several inches of water flowing across Hwy 385 at mile marker 147 south of Cheyenne Wells.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	$2,000	The Cheyenne County Sheriff's Office Facebook page reported multiple power lines down and water over roadways. Radar estimated the time of the event.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	$1,000	Signs and 3 diameter tree branches were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
April 2007	Tornado (EF1)	Cheyenne Wells	$1,000	A single power pole was broken at Roads Z, 43. Otherwise the tornado was over open fields with no known damage. Tornado developed near Roads X, 46 and dissipated near Roads AA, 42.
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	$500	Three to four inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
June 2006	Hail	Cheyenne Wells	$250	Hail broke window in garage.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	$150	A large tree branch about 18 feet long was blown down and blocking part of the road intersection at South 2nd and 10th Streets in Cheyenne Wells.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	-	Mesonet site Kemp Well Service reported a 61 mph wind gust.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	-	Report via social media of an estimated gust of 70 MPH in Cheyenne Wells.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	-	Site Kemp Well Service measured 62 mph wind gust.
August 2025	Hail	Cheyenne Wells	-	Public report of Quarter size hail falling north of Cheyenne Wells.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	-	Mesonet site Kemp Well Service via WeatherLink reported the wind gust.
October 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	-	Personal Weather Station kcocheye2 recorded a 60 MPH gust.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	-	Reported via Weather Underground station kcocheye2.
May 2023	Hail	Cheyenne Wells	-	Report received via mPing of quarter sized hail at location.
May 2023	Hail	Cheyenne Wells	-	Report received of hail up to a penny in size at location.
May 2023	Hail	Cheyenne Wells	-	Report sent in via MPing.
May 2023	Hail	Cheyenne Wells	-	The hail size ranged from pea to dime in size.
June 2023	Flash Flood	Cheyenne Wells	-	Multiple spotters reported water over road with videos. Water was estimated to be 6 inches over Highway 385 for about 100 yards.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	-	Trained spotter reported a max gust of 60.6 mph on their weather station.
June 2022	Hail	Cheyenne Wells	-	Spotter called in a report of dime to nickel sized hail. The hail lasted for about 3 minutes.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	-	Dispatch relayed a report of near zero visibility due to rain with thunderstorm wind gusts at an estimated 60 to 70 mph at location.
July 2021	Hail	Cheyenne Wells	-	Report received at location of hail ranging from pea to nickel in size along with torrential rainfall.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	-	Officer on duty estimated gusts of 50-60 MPH.
July 2020	Hail	Cheyenne Wells	-	Trained spotter and Cheyenne Wells law enforcement observed hail up to half dollar in size over a duration of twenty minutes in the town of Cheyenne Wells.
July 2020	Tornado (EFU)	Cheyenne Wells	-	Received a couple different reports of landspouts around this time. However, based on radar imagery and pictures/videos received, it appears that one single longer-lasting landspout tornado occurred. Reports described the times accurately and indicated the tornado occurred for around 10 minutes in duration, remaining nearly stationary.
July 2019	Flash Flood	Cheyenne Wells	-	Heavy rainfall resulted in rushing water over the roadways in Cheyenne Wells.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	-	Estimated wind speed by public of 50 to 60 mph.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	-	Measured with a Davis Vantage Vue while stationary.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	-	NWS Storm Survey concluded a significant wind event moved through Cheyenne Wells. Damage consisted of numerous tree limbs broken and down, uplift and overthrow of a metal roof, loss of another deck awning/metal roof, loss of siding to a home, loss of roofing material to a few mobile homes, and a few trees down.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	-	A large metal grain bin at the Cargill Elevators was shifted 3 to 4 inches of its foundation.
July 2019	Flash Flood	Cheyenne Wells	-	The local 911 dispatch reported a few inches of water over the roadway on US Hwy 40 eastbound into Cheyenne Wells.
July 2019	Flash Flood	Cheyenne Wells	-	Local law enforcement reported flash flooding along US Hwy 385 just north of Cheyenne Wells due to heavy rain.
July 2019	Flash Flood	Cheyenne Wells	-	Trained spotter reported flash flooding due to heavy rain near the Cheyenne County Fair Grounds along US Hwy 40.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	-	Winds were gusting to atleast 60 MPH. Pea size hail also occurred.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	-	The wind speeds were estimated to be 75 MPH.
May 2017	Hail	Cheyenne Wells	-	Quite a bit of hail was pounding against the house. Most of the hail appears to be quarter size.
May 2017	Hail	Cheyenne Wells	-	The average size of the hail was a half inch.
May 2017	Hail	Cheyenne Wells	-	Dime sized hail was observed with other smaller sized hail.
June 2016	Hail	Cheyenne Wells	-	Law enforcement called in a report of 1.75 inch hail at the intersection of CR K/CR 43.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	-	The thunderstorm winds caused a power outage which lasted between 15 and 25 minutes.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	-	Highway 40 was closed to westbound traffic due to debris in the roadway.
September 2016	Tornado (EF0)	Cheyenne Wells	-	A second landspout was seen north of Cheyenne Wells. Based on photos and the subtle rotation couplet on radar, the tornado remained roughly three miles north of town between CR T and CR V, crossing CR 43 first then Highway 385 near the CR U/Highway 385 intersection before dissipating east of the highway. No damage was reported with this tornado.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	-	A trained spotter estimated gusts of 60 MPH from the approaching storms.
May 2015	Hail	Cheyenne Wells	-	Dime size hail fell for roughly 5 minutes.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	-	Spotter reported estimated peak wind gusts of 60 mph.
August 2014	Hail	Cheyenne Wells	-	Quarter size hail was reported covering the ground.
June 2013	Hail	Cheyenne Wells	-	Enough hail had fallen from the storm to cover the ground.
June 2013	Hail	Cheyenne Wells	-	Hail has been falling for five minutes.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	-	Peak winds were estimated at 60 mph.
May 2013	Hail	Cheyenne Wells	-	Estimated time of report based on radar.
May 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Cheyenne Wells	-	The landspout was observed on streaming video from a storm chaser.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheyenne Wells	-	Spotter estimated peak wind gusts near 75 mph.

Every storm recorded in Cheyenne 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

1 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
	Cheyenne County Jail	0.1 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89000997 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cheyenne County	All 2 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.