Audubon County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Former Audubon County Courthouse, also known as the Audubon County Historical Society Museum, is a historic building located in Exira, Iowa, United States. Court proceedings were first held in a schoolhouse in Hamlin's Grove after Audubon County was established in 1851.”
Wikipedia article Former Audubon County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Audubon County · listed in 1977 · 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. Washington and Kilworth Sts., Exira, 50076
When was it listed? July 1977
Category. building
Also known as. County Courthouses in Iowa TR (AD); County Courthouses in Iowa TR
Township. Exira township
National Register reference number. 77000493 - 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

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Audubon County Courthouse in 2017, burning about 60 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	2

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
4 April 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2017	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Audubon 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 Audubon County Courthouse: 2 past producers. 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
	Anderson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Brayton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Audubon County

Storms near this property

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Exira, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Exira	$75,000	no account filed
May 2007	Flash Flood	Exira	$50,000	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Exira	$50,000	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Exira	$10,000	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Exira	$5,000	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Exira	$5,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Exira	$4,000	no account filed
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Exira	$3,000	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Exira	$2,000	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Exira	$2,000	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Exira	$2,000	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Exira	$2,000	no account filed
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Exira	$1,000	Healthy, mature tree blown over. Large 6 inch or larger tree limbs snapped.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Exira	-	Large tree damage. Time of occurrence estimated from radar.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Exira	-	Garage roof removed. Time of occurrence estimated from radar.
April 2025	Hail	Exira	-	Ground covered in hail up to nickel sized.
March 2025	Hail	Exira	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Exira	-	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
John D. Bush House	0.3 miles	1991
Andrew P. Hansen Farmstead	5.5 miles	1991
Audubon County Home Historic District	7.6 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000493 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.
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.