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Photograph of Lawrence County Courthouse
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lawrence County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“The Lawrence County Courthouse, located at 1100 State St. in Lawrenceville, is the county courthouse serving Lawrence County, Illinois. Built in 1888-89, the courthouse is the third used by the county; all three courthouses were built at the same site in Lawrenceville's public square.”

Wikipedia article Lawrence County Courthouse (Illinois), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Lawrence County · listed in 2010 · 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, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1100 State St, Lawrenceville, 62439
  • When was it listed? December 2010
  • Category. building
  • Township. Lawrence township
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 10000992 - 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Lawrence township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From Combined History of Edwards, Lawrence and Wabash Counties, Illinois. With Illustrations ... and Biographical Sketches of Some of Their Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1883 - Lawrence Township

Captain G. M. Keniepp

CHRISTIAN KENIEPP, the founder of the family, living in Wabash and Lawrence counties, Illinois, was a Hessian soldier captured at Trenton. He joined the colonial army, and after the war married and located in Geauga county, Ohio. He had four sons and several daughters, the eldest being the first white female child born in that section in Ohio.

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The ground it stands on

32,475 words

The chapter on Lawrence Township in Combined History of Edwards, Lawrence and Wabash Counties, Illinois. With Illustrations ... and Biographical Sketches of Some of Their Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1883 names Lawrenceville. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

The first permanent English immigration and settlements were made in 1816-'17 after the Indian troubles had ceased, at which time there was quite an active influx of emigrants, who were mainly families from some portion of the South. Among these was Geo. W. Kinkaid who came with his family from Kentucky in the above year and settled in section 28, township 4, range 11. He had one son, Albert, and three daughters. Mr. K. resided on his farm for some years, when his wife died, and he moved into Lawrenceville. He was one of the early postmasters of the town. He remained here until his death, which occurred in 1848. Albert, his son, is a citizen of Richland county.

Passage source: Combined History of Edwards, Lawrence and Wabash Counties, Illinois. With Illustrations ... and Biographical Sketches of Some of Their Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1883.

John Buchanan was also from the South, and as early as 1816 he came to the State and settled in section 12, township 3, range 12. He was a man of family, several of his children being old enough to aid him in his pioneer efforts. He improved a farm, where he resided until his children had grown up and married. He then moved to Lawrenceville, where he resided until his death, which occurred long ago. Some of his descendants are yet living in the county.

Passage source: Combined History of Edwards, Lawrence and Wabash Counties, Illinois. With Illustrations ... and Biographical Sketches of Some of Their Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1883.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Lawrence Township - 32,475 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Lawrence County Courthouse between 2008 and 2010, burning about 7 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMICHAEL
15 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSEWARD
24 June 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGOSNELL
24 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBUCHANAN
3 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSTATE
29 January 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGARDNER

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lawrence County Courthouse: 3 producers, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sulfur. 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
Embarras River C Ay Shale ExposureClayProspect
Lawrenceville PlantSulfurProducer
Gregory Gravel Co. - DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lawerence County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lawrenceville PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this property

56 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lawrenceville, the town this property stands in, in 56 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 37 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 3 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
May 2018Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$100,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across Lawrenceville.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$75,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across Lawrenceville.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$75,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in Lawrenceville.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$55,000Numerous tree branches and power lines were blown down in Lawrenceville.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$50,000Numerous trees were blown down in the vicinity of Lawrenceville and Bridgeport Illinois. Several homes sustained minor damage. Record or near record rainfall across southwest Indiana, southeast Illinois, as well as west and south-central Kentucky produced widespread flashlooding during the month of May. Thirteen and fifty-one hundredths inches of rain was recorded in Evansville, with 4.92 inches falling on the 17th. Numerous roads were closed across the tri state area.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$30,000Five power poles and several large trees were blown down.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$25,000Numerous trees and tree branches were blown down in Lawrenceville.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$20,000Trees were uprooted or snapped.
December 2015Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$20,000Two Ameren power poles were snapped off at the ground.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$15,000Several trees were blown down across Route 1 just north of Lawrenceville.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$15,000Several small trees and tree branches were blown down.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$12,000A power pole was snapped and the roof of an outbuilding was torn off.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$8,000Windows were blown out of a house.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$5,000Large limbs were blown down in Lawrenceville.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$3,000Two trees were blown down in Lawrenceville.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$2,000A tree and several tree branches were blown down in Lawrenceville.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville$500Trees were blown down around Lawrenceville.
April 2025Flash FloodLawrenceville-An estimated 9 inches of water was flowing across 15th Street in Lawrenceville, prompting the closure of the road in a few spots. In addition, water was flowing across parts of 12th Street and James Street.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville-Several 4 to 6-inch diameter tree branches were blown down near the intersection of IL-1 and County Road 880 North.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville-Trees and limbs were blown down across Lawrence County.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville-Several large tree branches were blown down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville-Several trees were blown down.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville-Several 3-inch diameter tree limbs were snapped.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville-A few small branches were blown down near Walmart.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville-Numerous trees were blown down along Route 1 between Lawrenceville and Birds.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville-Numerous trees were blown down in Lawrenceville. One tree fell onto a mobile home.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville-Numerous trees and power lines blown down. A chain link fence was blown down, a scoreboard was bent over and railroad crossing arms were broken off in Lawrenceville.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville-Numerous trees, power poles and power lines were blown down. Minor roofing damage occurred to several homes.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across town.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville-Numerous trees and power lines blown down.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville-Measured gust from Lawrenceville ASOS.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville-Several trees and power lines were blown down. Some of the trees fell onto U.S. Highway 50 west of Lawrenceville.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville-Several powerlines were blown down in town.
July 2001Flash FloodLawrenceville-Water was reported over the road on Route 250, between Lawrenceville and Bridgeport at 405 am CST. Several roads were also reported flooded in the towns of Lawrenceville and Bridgeport.
July 2001Flash FloodLawrenceville-Several streets were reported to be flooded in town.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville-Numerous trees and tree limbs were blown down in Lawrenceville. Two homes sustained moderate roof damage from a large tree that was uprooted. Also, a garage was destroyed by a fallen tree. No injuries were reported.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville-A large tree was blown over onto the river road near the Wabash River.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. Trees fell onto 4 houses in Russellville causing minor roof damage.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville-Thunderstorm winds blew over several trees in Lawrenceville. No injuries were reported.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindLawrenceville-no account filed
August 2023HailLawrenceville-no account filed
June 2023HailLawrenceville-no account filed
March 2016HailLawrenceville-no account filed
March 2016HailLawrenceville-no account filed
March 2016HailLawrenceville-no account filed
April 2013HailLawrenceville-no account filed
April 2011HailLawrenceville-no account filed
April 2011HailLawrenceville-no account filed
March 2009HailLawrenceville-no account filed
March 2009HailLawrenceville-no account filed
January 2008HailLawrenceville-no account filed
January 2008HailLawrenceville-no account filed
June 2006HailLawrenceville-no account filed
September 2006HailLawrenceville-no account filed
July 2004HailLawrenceville-no account filed
June 1998HailLawrenceville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10000992 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lawrence CountyAll 2 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.
  • 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.