Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
From the record
“The Harrison County Courthouse, located in Logan, Iowa, United States, was built in 1911. 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 Harrison County Courthouse (Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 13 National Register listings published here for Harrison County · listed in 1981 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.81000243- 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
24 since 2014
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Harrison County Courthouse
between 2014 and 2018, burning about 157 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
17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Equipment and vehicle use
2
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 federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Harrison County Courthouse: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Logan, the town this property stands in, in 44 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 20 hail, 19 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado.
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.
Heavy Rainfall in northwest Iowa in late August led to minor flooding along the Boyer River. The river rose above flood stage in the early morning on the first, and created and fell below flood stage later that morning.
A 58 miles per hour wind gust was measured on a personal weather station. Severe winds at this location persisted for almost 20 minutes, with a 58 miles per hour wind gust also being recorded on a mesonet station 17 minutes later.
Hail up to golf ball-size fell in the Logan area associated with the same supercell thunderstorm that produced a tornado near the area. The hail caused significant vehicle and roof and siding damage in and around town.
Thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph downed numerous trees and large branches in town. The fallen trees caused power outages across town and some areas lost power for around 5 hours.
A tornado reported by an amateur radio operator was also caught on film by a veteran storm chaser who described the tornado as having rotating dust swirls directly under a bowl shaped lowering and rotating mesocyclone. The tornado apparently touched down in open country and caused little or no damage.
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.
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.
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