Newton County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Newton County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Kentland, Indiana, United States. The original Newton County was formed by statute on February 7, 1835, and was a roughly square area some 30 miles on a side, encompassing what is now the northern half of the county, the northern half of Jasper County, and a large section to the north.”
Wikipedia article Newton County Courthouse (Indiana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Newton County · listed in 2008 · 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 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. One Courthouse Square, Kentland, 47951
When was it listed? August 2008
Category. building
Township. Jefferson township
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 08000742 - 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Newton County Courthouse: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Sulfur, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Newton County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Sphalerite and Galena Occurence Z84	Zinc, Lead, Sulfur	Occurrence	Galena, Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this property

33 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kentland, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 16 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2010	Lightning	Kentland	$100,000	Lightning struck a barn and fire destroyed it.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Kentland	$5,000	A barn was damaged and extensive tree damage was reported.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Kentland	$2,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Kentland	$1,000	One utility pole was blown down.
March 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Kentland	$1,000	Tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Kentland	-	Thirteen utility poles were snapped or blown over along Route 24.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Kentland	-	A large tree limb was blown down.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Kentland	-	Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph. Trees and tree limbs were blown down.
July 2015	Flash Flood	Kentland	-	Newton County Sheriff reported that there was flooding across much of southern Newton County, mainly south of the Iroquois River, including Kentland.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Kentland	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph in Kentland.
July 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Kentland	-	A brief tornado touched down near 1300 S and Route 41. No damage was reported.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Kentland	-	A tree and tree limbs were blown down. Corn crops were also damaged.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Kentland	-	Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph.
September 2006	Flood	Kentland	-	Water five inches deep was reported along US 41 between Kirkland and County Line Roads. Storm total rainfall of 4.11 inches was measured in Kentland.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Kentland	-	A shed was blown down in Kentland, trees and power lines were blown down in Brook and tree limbs were blown down along State Road 114.
May 2004	Hail	Kentland	-	Reported on the west side of Kentland.
May 2004	Hail	Kentland	-	Hail damaged a spotter's vehicle.
May 2004	Tornado (F0)	Kentland	-	The tornado began at a quarry about 3 miles east of Kentland, on US 24, just west of Meridian Road. It continued moving east northeast for about 2 1/2 miles. At the quarry, an antenna was blown down, windows and garage doors were blown out at a building. Another metal building had the west wall pushed in and part of the roof peeled off. An empty hopper railroad car was pushed about 50 yards down the track. At the east end of the quarry, along Meridian Road, a fence was ripped up and thrown across the road and into a field. Two power poles were snapped. Grain bins were destroyed near County Road 100 East on US 24.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Kentland	-	Large tree limbs were blown down.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Kentland	-	Three inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
September 2000	Hail	Kentland	-	Reported by County Sheriff.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Kentland	-	no account filed
August 2018	Hail	Kentland	-	no account filed
September 2013	Hail	Kentland	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Kentland	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Kentland	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Kentland	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Kentland	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Kentland	-	no account filed
June 2001	Flash Flood	Kentland	-	no account filed
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Kentland	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Kentland	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Kentland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
	McCairn-Turner House	7.8 miles	1994
	Goodland-Grant Township Public Library	7.9 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000742 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Newton 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.
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.