Built in 1861 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
From the record
“The Old Allamakee County Courthouse, also known as the Allamakee County Historical Museum, is a historic building located in Waukon, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1861 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 as a part of the County Courthouses in Iowa Thematic Resource.”
Wikipedia article Old Allamakee County Courthouse (Waukon, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 21 National Register listings published here for Allamakee County · listed in 1977 · category: Building · built in 1861, Greek Revival architecture.
Also known as. County Courthouses in Iowa TR (AD); County Courthouses in Iowa TR
Township. Makee township
When was it built? 1861
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number.77000492- 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
23 since 2009
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Allamakee County Courthouse
between 2009 and 2020, burning about 637 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
Debris and open burning
13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
9
Equipment and vehicle use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
11 workings within 5 miles of Allamakee County Courthouse: 9 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Waukon, the town this property stands in, in 60 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 33 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 tornado.
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.
Runoff from heavy rain caused flooding to occur in and around Waukon. Several rescues had to be performed to save people from the flooding. Some businesses and homes were damaged by the flooding.
An estimated 60 mph wind gust occurred in Waukon. The roof was blown off a business, a home lost part of its roof and several other businesses sustained some roof damage.
Thunderstorms with high winds produced damage in and near Waukon. Trees and crops were blown over, a camper was rolled onto its side and house windows were broken.
Thunderstorms fired ahead of a strong cold front as it sank south into an unstable air mass over Iowa. Cape values were around 2500 J-kg-1 combined with lifted indices in the -8° range aided the thunderstorm development. Iowa was on the southwest corner of a small convective complex. The storms produced hail and gusty winds over the northeast corner of the state, with golf ball-size hail reported north of Waukon in Allamakee County. One inch diameter hail was also reported about the same time west of Burr Oak in Winneshiek County.
Very heavy rain fell at such a fast rate that the sewer stations in Waukon were not able to keep up with the rain and as a result, flooding occurred around the city.
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
4 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.
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.
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