Cumberland County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

“The Cumberland County Courthouse, located in Courthouse Square in Toledo, is the county courthouse of Cumberland County, Illinois. Built in 1887-88, the building is Cumberland County's second courthouse.”
Wikipedia article Cumberland County Courthouse (Illinois), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Cumberland 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. Court House Sq., Toledo, 62468
When was it listed? June 1981
Category. building
Township. Sumpter township
National Register reference number. 81000220 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Cumberland County Courthouse: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Oak Chapel Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Cumberland City Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Toledo City Pit	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cumberland County

Storms near this property

29 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toledo, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 21 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	1 hurt	A tree was blown down onto a car resulting in an injury to one person.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Toledo	$40,000	Multiple roads closed due to high water flowing over them, including IL Route 121 near Greenup. Two mudslides occurred north of Greenup. A vehicle was found submerged at the Cumberland County Fairgrounds. At least 2 bridges and multiple roads suffered damage from the flooding in Greenup.
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$30,000	A downburst caused minor wind damage on the southwest side of Toledo. A wood fence and travel trailer were blown over. In addition, several small limbs were blown down and 3 houses lost shingles.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$25,000	Several large tree branches were blown down in Toledo.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$20,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$8,000	A few trees were blown down in Toledo.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$8,000	A large tree was blown down onto a house.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$7,000	A power pole was snapped.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$7,000	A power pole was snapped.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	-	A fence and several tree limbs were blown down. A couple mature pine trees were snapped in half.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	-	A powerline was blown down.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	-	Several large tree branches were blown down.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	-	Several tree branches were blown down.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	-	A large tree was blown over on East Jackson Street.
May 2009	Flash Flood	Toledo	-	Heavy rain of 2.00 to 4.00 inches within two to three hours produced significant flash flooding of most roads across Cumberland County. Many rural roads were closed to traffic due to high water.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	-	Several trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	-	Several large tree limbs were blown down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	-	A large tree and tree limbs were blown down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	-	A large tree was blown down across Illinois Route 121 west of Toledo.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	-	Several large trees were blown down as well as power lines and tree limbs. Also, northeast of Greenup a barn was destroyed. No injuries were reported.
February 2001	Flash Flood	Toledo	-	Flash flooding was reported in Toledo, as well as throughout much of the county after 1 to 3 inches of rain fell on frozen ground during the late morning and early afternoon hours. Portions of State Route 45 were reported underwater in and around the Toledo area.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	-	Another Ham radio tower was blown down in Toledo.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	-	Several trees were blown down.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a couple of trees in Toledo.
June 2023	Hail	Toledo	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Toledo	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Toledo	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Toledo	-	no account filed
February 1999	Hail	Toledo	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cumberland 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
	Thornton Ward Estate	3.5 miles	2001
	Greenup Commercial Historic District	4.7 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 81000220 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cumberland County	All 3 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.
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.