Mount Pulaski Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Mount Pulaski Courthouse State Historic Site is a historic county courthouse located in Mount Pulaski, Illinois, United States. It was the county seat of Logan County from 1848 until 1855.”
Wikipedia article Mount Pulaski Courthouse State Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Logan County · listed in 1978 · 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. Public Sq., Mount Pulaski, 62548
When was it listed? August 1978
Category. building
Township. Mount Pulaski township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 78001164 - 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.

The ground it stands on

12,245 words

The chapter on Mount Pulaski Township in History of Logan County, Illinois : Its Past and Present .., published 1878 names Mount Pulaski. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

DUBOCE M. A. photographic artist; all new styles of pictures taken in the best manner, from card to life size; special instrument for groups and children; stereoscopic views and large views' taken to order; Mount Pulaski, Illinois

Passage source: History of Logan County, Illinois : Its Past and Present .., published 1878.

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 Mount Pulaski Township - 12,245 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pulaski Courthouse between 2009 and 2010, burning about 8 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	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	FRICKE
17 November 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	10368

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mount Pulaski Courthouse: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Allsopp Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Fulk Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Logan 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Theodore H. O. Mattfeldt House	under 500 feet	1996
	Robert Buckles Barn	1.8 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001164 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Logan County	All 12 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.