Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
From the record
“The Louisa County Courthouse in Wapello, Iowa, United States, was built in 1928. 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 Louisa County Courthouse (Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 8 National Register listings published here for Louisa County · listed in 1981 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.81000253- 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
36 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Louisa County Courthouse
between 2006 and 2017, burning about 534 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
19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
16
Recreation and ceremony
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
1 working within 5 miles of Louisa County Courthouse: 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Flagstone. 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
Wapello, the town this property stands in, in 55 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 21 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 8 flash flood, 4 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.
Heavy rains have resulted in flash flooding in and near Wapello, IA during the early morning hours of June 22. Highway 99 in Wapello was covered by flood waters around 1254 am June 22. Other county roads in the vicinity of Wapello, IA were also covered by flood waters.
Flood waters from the Iowa River caused a levee to fail near the intersection of I Avenue and County Road G62 just east northeast of Wapello, IA around 12:46 pm June 13. This levee failure resulted in flash flooding of approximately 500 acres which included four homes located behind the levee.
A power company repair main confirmed that thunderstorm snapped off two power poles. No other damage was found. Time of the event was estimated using radar.
The Iowa River at Wapello rose above the major flood stage of 25.0 feet around midnight on October 8th and fell back below major flood stage around 4 PM on the 14th. The river crested at 26.8 feet around 8 PM on the 11th.
Heavy rains across the Upper Midwest and eastern Iowa during the last 2 weeks of June caused the Iowa River to rise to its major flood stage of 25 feet around 6PM on July 1 and fall below major flood stage around 115AM on July 9. The river crested at 30.2 feet from 5AM to 6PM on July 3.
The Iowa River at Wapello rose above the major flood stage of 25 feet in the early afternoon of the first. The river remained above major flood stage until the the late evening of the 7th.
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
4 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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