Boone County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

“The Boone County Courthouse, located in Boone, Iowa, United States, was built in 1917. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981 as a part of the County Courthouses in Iowa Thematic Resource.”
Wikipedia article Boone County Courthouse (Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Boone County · listed in 1981 · 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. N. State and W. 2nd Sts., Boone, 50036
When was it listed? July 1981
Category. building
Also known as. County Courthouses in Iowa TR
Township. Des Moines township
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 81000226 - 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

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Boone County Courthouse between 2010 and 2016, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
10 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	HWY 17, P AVE, BOONE COUNTY, IOWA
8 March 2016	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	BOONE
31 March 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	1624 220TH STREET, IOWA

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Boone County Courthouse: 15 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Boone Clay Works	Clay	Past Producer
Everett Yard	Clay	Past Producer
Jacob Yegge Brickyard	Clay	Past Producer
N. W. Griffee Pottery Works	Clay	Past Producer
Slater Yard	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown	Clay	Past Producer
Ahrens Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Boone Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Keeney Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Boone County

Storms near this property

60 of 129 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boone, the town this property stands in, in 129 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 51 thunderstorm wind, 48 hail, 16 heavy rain, 5 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	2 hurt, $50,000	no account filed
June 1996	Flash Flood	Boone	$400,000	no account filed
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$200,000	Local law enforcement reports trees and power lines down in Boone and across the county with some roads closed due to debris.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$100,000	The emergency manager reported that four 1 1/2 foot diameter evergreen trees were downed and the roof was torn off of a barn in the northwest corner of Boone. Also from a mile north of Boone to the eastern border of the county sheeting was strewn about from various buildings.
November 2005	Tornado (F0)	Boone	$100,000	Tornado touched down in Boone County and moved into Story County.
May 1998	Hail	Boone	$100,000	no account filed
June 1998	Flood	Boone	$100,000	no account filed
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$75,000	Numerous branches down across the city of Boone. Largest was at least 18 inches in diameter.
August 2010	Flash Flood	Boone	$50,000	Boone County law reports numerous roads flooded in town as well as flooding along old Highway 30 at Highway 17.
May 2008	Heavy Rain	Boone	$50,000	Heavy rain of 3 inches caused basement flooding in Boone.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$50,000	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Boone	$40,000	no account filed
June 1998	Flood	Boone	$40,000	no account filed
July 2010	Flash Flood	Boone	$25,000	Water over County Highway R27/P Ave north of Boone. Several gravel roads throughout northeast Boone County are covered with water.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$25,000	Schoolnet site.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$25,000	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$25,000	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Boone	$25,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$25,000	no account filed
August 1996	Lightning	Boone	$25,000	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Boone	$15,000	no account filed
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$10,000	Six inch diameter branch down, patio furniture blown throughout the yard. Loss of power for 5 minutes.
May 2008	Hail	Boone	$10,000	Golf ball size hail was reported.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$10,000	Visibility near zero with cars blown off the road.
June 2005	Hail	Boone	$10,000	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Boone	$10,000	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$10,000	no account filed
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$10,000	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Boone	$7,000	no account filed
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$5,000	Emergency Manager reported eight to ten inch diameter tree down in Boone.
April 2013	Hail	Boone	$5,000	Quarter to ping pong ball size hail.
July 2013	Hail	Boone	$5,000	Mostly nickel size hail with a few golf ball size.
July 2013	Hail	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
March 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
June 1994	Tornado (F0)	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
October 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Boone	$5,000	no account filed
July 2013	Hail	Boone	$4,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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

6 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
Ericson Public Library	1.1 miles	1983
Perrigo-Holmes House	1.1 miles	1994
Alonzo J. and Flora Barkley House	1.3 miles	1995
Champlin Memorial Masonic Temple	1.4 miles	1990
First National Bank	1.4 miles	1989
Stoll Building Works	1.4 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 81000226 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boone County	All 19 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.