Ringgold County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

“The Ringgold County Courthouse in Mount Ayr, Iowa, United States, was built in 1927. 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 Ringgold County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Ringgold 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. Madison St., Mount Ayr, 50854
When was it listed? July 1981
Category. building
Also known as. County Courthouses in Iowa TR
City. Mount Ayr city
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture, Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 81000267 - 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.

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

3 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
Ringgold County Jail	0.3 miles	1979
W. J. Buck Polygonal Barn	4.9 miles	1986
Lee Shay Farmhouse	7.6 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 81000267 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ringgold County	All 6 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.