Ringgold County Jail

Built in 1895. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Ringgold County Jail is a historic building located in Mount Ayr, Iowa, United States. It was the second building that housed the county jail from its completion in 1895 until the present Ringgold County Courthouse and jail was built in 1927.”
Wikipedia article Ringgold County Jail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Ringgold County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1895.

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. 201 E. Monroe St., Mount Ayr, 50854
When was it listed? June 1979
Category. building
City. Mount Ayr city
When was it built? 1895
National Register reference number. 79000939 - 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.

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
Ringgold County Courthouse	0.3 miles	1981
W. J. Buck Polygonal Barn	5.0 miles	1986
Lee Shay Farmhouse	7.9 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000939 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ringgold County	All 6 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.