Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
From the record
“The Fremont County Courthouse, located in Sidney, Iowa, United States, was built in 1889. 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 Fremont County Courthouse (Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Fremont County · listed in 1981 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.81000238- 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
7 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Fremont County Courthouse
between 2006 and 2020, burning about 141 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
5
Debris and open burning
1
Smoking
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 National Weather Service names
Sidney, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 15 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud.
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.
Emergency management reported lots of hail the size of dimes and nickels with a few quarter sized hail stones mixed in. Time slightly adjusted to account for a delay in the report from when the hail actually fell.
The USGS Gages near Riverton on both the West and East Nishnabotna Rivers showed minor flooding with two crests. The first, and more minor of the two crests, came on the 12th and was just 0.3 above food stage on the East Nishnabotna and 0.9 above on the West Nishnabotna. The second higher crests came on the 15th into the 16th and was 0.47 above on the East, and 2.92 feet above on the West. Both crests caused minor low land flooding along the river.
Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 70 mph caused extensive tree and property damage in the Sidney area. The county Chief Deputy reported that there was a tree down on about every block. Pieces of a roof of an auto parts store blew off and damaged several vehicles in the area and a grocery store lost several windows. A barn collapsed from the winds as well. Power poles were snapped and the power was lost across a large part of the area.
A bookend vortex spun up another brief tornado in between Sidney and Randolph. The tornado was only on the ground a minute or two and did no apparent damage. Emergency management spotted this tornado from his office in Sidney and stated that there possibly could have been 2 or 3 funnels or tornadoes from this particular supercell at this time.
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
2 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.
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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