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Audobon County Court House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Audubon County Court House is located in the county seat of Audubon, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 as a part of the PWA-Era County Courthouses of IA Multiple Properties Submission.”
Wikipedia article Audubon County Court House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Audubon County · listed in 2003 · 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 318 Leroy St., Audubon, 50025
When was it listed? August 2003
Category. building
Also known as. PWA-Era County Courthouses of IA MPS
Township. Leroy township
Architectural style. PWA Moderne
National Register reference number. 03000826 - 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

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Audobon County Court House in 2010, burning about 40 acres in total. None 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	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
29 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	1464 210TH ST., AUDUBON, IOWA

Every fire recorded in Audubon County

Storms near this property

60 of 96 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Audubon, the town this property stands in, in 96 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 39 thunderstorm wind, 38 hail, 8 heavy rain, 5 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
April 2007	Flood	Audubon	$250,000	no account filed
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$100,000	High winds in Audubon caused damage to a local church. A structure holding the Ten Commandments was destroyed by the winds as they were torn down from the church.
June 1998	Flood	Audubon	$100,000	no account filed
May 2007	Flash Flood	Audubon	$50,000	no account filed
May 2004	Flash Flood	Audubon	$50,000	no account filed
June 1996	Flood	Audubon	$50,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$45,000	no account filed
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$30,000	Numerous tree branches were down all over town.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$30,000	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$30,000	no account filed
June 1996	Flood	Audubon	$30,000	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$20,000	no account filed
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$15,000	Winds blew down a few large trees and several 5 to 10 inch diameter limbs were downed in Audubon.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$15,000	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Audubon	$15,000	no account filed
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$10,000	Emergency manager reported power lines down on the northeast side of Audubon. Time estimated from radar.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$10,000	Winds estimated up to 70 MPH causing the building to shake. Spotter unable to open doors to outside due to wind.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$10,000	Wind report was from the Audubon Community schoolnet. ID SAUI4.
May 2005	Hail	Audubon	$10,000	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Audubon	$10,000	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Audubon	$10,000	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Audubon	$10,000	no account filed
July 1998	Flood	Audubon	$10,000	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Audubon	$10,000	no account filed
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$5,000	Semi truck was blown over on the highway north of Audubon.
August 2007	Hail	Audubon	$5,000	Winds of 45 to 50 MPH also occurred with the hail.
May 2012	Hail	Audubon	$5,000	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Audubon	$5,000	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Audubon	$5,000	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$5,000	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$5,000	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Audubon	$5,000	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Audubon	$5,000	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Audubon	$5,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$5,000	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Audubon	$3,000	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$3,000	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Audubon	$3,000	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$3,000	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Audubon	$3,000	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Audubon	$3,000	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Audubon	$3,000	no account filed
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$2,000	A few large branches were down in town.
May 2005	Tornado (F0)	Audubon	$2,000	Tornado tracked through open fields.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$2,000	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$2,000	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Audubon	$2,000	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Audubon	$2,000	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Audubon	$2,000	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Audubon	$2,000	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Audubon	$2,000	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$2,000	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$2,000	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Audubon	$2,000	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$2,000	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Audubon	$1,000	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Audubon	$1,000	no account filed
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Audubon	$1,000	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Audubon	$1,000	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Audubon	$1,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Audubon 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

3 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
Audubon County Home Historic District	1.8 miles	2015
Ross Grain Elevator	3.6 miles	2018
Bethany Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church	8.0 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000826 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Audubon County	All 15 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.
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.