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Photograph of Hancock County Courthouse
Photograph by Ann Sullivan-Larson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hancock County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

“The Hancock County Courthouse is located in Garner, Iowa, United States. 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 Hancock County Courthouse (Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Hancock 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. State St., Garner, 50438
  • When was it listed? July 1981
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. County Courthouses in Iowa TR
  • Township. Concord township
  • National Register reference number. 81000240 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Hancock County Courthouse: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Andrews QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Garner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Garner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Garner Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Garner Reuber QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hancock County

Storms near this property

51 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garner, the town this property stands in, in 51 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 24 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 8 heavy rain, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1997Flash FloodGarner$100,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindGarner$50,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindGarner$50,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindGarner$50,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindGarner$50,000no account filed
June 2006LightningGarner$30,000no account filed
August 2018HailGarner$25,000Public reported, through local media, hail larger than baseball in size. Time estimated from radar.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindGarner$25,000Storm chaser video depicted extensive wind damage to power poles, including series of snapped poles. This is a delayed report and time estimated from radar.
July 2013HailGarner$25,000The golf ball size hail was reported on Henchen Street.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindGarner$25,000no account filed
September 2001HailGarner$25,000no account filed
September 2018Thunderstorm WindGarner$20,000Hancock County Sheriff reported power lines down.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindGarner$20,000Public reported a large tree fell on a house and damage was done to a fence in town. Tree was 1 to 2 feet in diameter. Reported via social media and is a delayed report.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindGarner$15,000Multiple large trees and limbs down in town.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindGarner$15,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindGarner$10,000Emergency manager relayed trees down in Garner, some roads blocked.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindGarner$10,000Public reported a large healthy tree, about 2 feet in diameter, snapped at the base just east of Garner.
August 2018HailGarner$10,000Public reported hail around ping pong ball in size.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindGarner$10,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindGarner$10,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindGarner$10,000no account filed
April 2010Thunderstorm WindGarner$5,000Tree branch damage was reported and a 2 foot diameter tree was blown down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindGarner$5,000no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindGarner$5,000no account filed
May 2000HailGarner$3,000no account filed
August 2018Thunderstorm WindGarner$2,000Large branches of 3 to 4 inches diameter downed in town.
July 2003HailGarner$2,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindGarner$2,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindGarner$1,000Public reported shingles on the road, trees and branches down in Garner. Time estimated by radar.
May 2000HailGarner$1,000no account filed
April 2025HailGarner-Report via mping.
April 2025HailGarner-Report via mping.
April 2022HailGarner-Law enforcement reported golf ball sized hail.
August 2022Heavy RainGarner-A 24 hour rainfall total of 4.04 inches.
August 2022Heavy RainGarner-A 24 hour rainfall total of 4.04 inches.
June 2022HailGarner-Time estimated via radar.
April 2019HailGarner-Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindGarner-Public relayed picture of 5 inch tree limbs downed. Time estimated from radar.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindGarner-Public relayed picture of large tree limb, about 10 inches in diameter, broken in Garner.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindGarner-Public reported 2 inch tree limbs down and debris blowing across the road. There was also up to nickel sized hail.
June 2018Heavy RainGarner-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.19 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2018Heavy RainGarner-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 4.21 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2018Heavy RainGarner-Public reported heavy rainfall of 3.25 inches ending this morning.
September 2018Heavy RainGarner-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 4.21 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2016Heavy RainGarner-Public reported storm total heavy rainfall of 4.5 inches since Tuesday night.
August 2016Heavy RainGarner-Public reported storm total heavy rainfall of 2.75 inches.
April 2025HailGarner-no account filed
March 2023HailGarner-no account filed
June 2022HailGarner-no account filed
July 2013HailGarner-no account filed
June 1999Tornado (F0)Garner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hancock 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

1 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Avery Theater, The0.4 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 81000240 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hancock CountyAll 9 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.
  • 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.