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Photograph of Clinton County Courthouse
Photograph by Paul J Everett, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Clinton County Courthouse

Built in 1882 (Second Empire style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Clinton County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at 50 North Jackson Street in Frankfort, Indiana, United States. Built 1882-1884. the courthouse was designed by George W.”

Wikipedia article Clinton County Courthouse (Indiana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Clinton County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1882, Second Empire style.

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., Frankfort, 46041
  • When was it listed? December 1978
  • Category. building
  • Township. Center township
  • When was it built? 1882
  • Architectural style. Second Empire style
  • National Register reference number. 78000027 - 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

5,310 words

The chapter on Center Township in Combination Atlas Map of Clinton County, Indiana, published 1878 names Frankfort. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Mr. Armstrong is still a resident of the township, owning a well improved farm, situated near Frankfort. He and the Douglass brothers are the only persons who settled in the township in 1878 who are yet living and still residents of the county.

Passage source: Combination Atlas Map of Clinton County, Indiana, published 1878.

During the year 1829, the following sturdy, energetic men were added to the little colony: John Pence, who settled on the farm where he is now living - he is among those who entered land in 1827, being the tract upon which Frankfort now stands; John Furgeson, on the farm belonging to Mr. Blind; J. R. Kelley, on the farm where he is still living; Samuel Di Maxwell; Peter Fudge, on the farm owned by the heirs of Armantrout; William Pence, on the land owned by his son, Perry; Moses Fudge, where A. J. Dolson resides ; John McCrary, on the land belonging to Fentzmaker; Eli Armantrout, on eighty acres of the land now included in the County Poor Farm; Arthur Compton, on the Scroggy farm; Solomon Young, on the land at present owned by Mr. Given; Samuel E. Holliday, on the land now a part of the city of Frankfort; Matthias Young, on the Grey estate; Jesse Carter, on. the farm owned by his son William ; James Allen, on the Coleman farm; Joseph Steel, Sr., the land belonging to Mr. Holliday; Robert Smith, on the land of Peter Rush; Andrew Kenney, on the Catterlin farm; and Henry Fudge, who made his home with William Pence.

Passage source: Combination Atlas Map of Clinton County, Indiana, 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 Center Township - 5,310 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

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 Clinton County Courthouse: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clinton County Highway DepartmentStoneProducer
Frankfort Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this property

60 of 80 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frankfort, the town this property stands in, in 80 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 39 thunderstorm wind, 25 hail, 6 flash flood, 6 flood. The reports record 7 injuries. 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
July 1996Thunderstorm WindFrankfort6 hurt, $2,000,000no account filed
November 2017Thunderstorm WindFrankfort1 hurt, $205,000Part of the Walmart's roof collapsed and the front of the store was damaged due to damaging straight-line thunderstorm winds. Two semi truck was knocked over as well. One man inside an overturned truck was taken to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries. A church's steeple was bent by the severe wind. Multiple trees and large branches were snapped and the roof of Frankfort High School sustained some minor damage. Many other homes and structures sustained damage as well.
July 2003Flash FloodFrankfort$1,000,000no account filed
July 2005Tornado (F1)Frankfort$250,000An F1 tornado touched down briefly on the northeast side of Frankfort, destroying a garage and causing damage to other structures.
April 2004Tornado (F1)Frankfort$250,000A low-topped supercell produced an F1 tornado near Frankfort. The tornado destroyed 2 garages and a high school scoreboard and also damaged a barn.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$50,000Large tree downed on an unoccupied car by thunderstorm wind gusts. Numerous powerlines also downed.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$50,000Twenty high voltage towers in a row were twisted or knocked to the ground near 1900 West Barner Street due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. This location is just north of State Route 28 and just outside the business park.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$40,000Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree that that fell on and damaged two cars.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$20,000A grain silo was blown over.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$15,000A garage was blown into a porch due to damaging thunderstorm winds. Broken power poles were also found in Frankfort.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$15,000Thunderstorm winds damaged a barn roof northwest of Frankfort.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$12,000Trees were downed from Delphi to Frankfort due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Duke Energy reported numerous service calls because of this.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$12,000A semi-truck was blown over on State Route 28 due to thunderstorm wind gusts. The time this event occurred is estimated.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$10,000Multiple trees were downed in Frankfort due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$10,000A semi was blown off the highway.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$5,000Thunderstorm winds snapped a large tree in half.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$5,000Trees were downed, and the windows were blown out of a house.
July 2005LightningFrankfort$3,000Lightning caused a fire on the front porch of a home.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$2,500Power poles and three inch tree limbs broken by thunderstorm wind gusts.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$2,000A small tree was snapped by thunderstorm wind gusts near its base.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$2,000Several large tree limbs downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$2,000A tree of unknown size along with numerous medium to large tree limbs downed by thunderstorm wind gusts within the city limits.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$1,000A tree was reported down north of Frankfort due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2013FloodFrankfort$1,000Some streets in the city were flooded due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall.
July 2008Flash FloodFrankfort$1,000Severe street flooding was reported as a result of heavy rainfall.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$1,000A large tree was reported across the road in town and power lines were also reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$1,000Power lines and trees were downed.
September 2018FloodFrankfort$500The 911 Center reported standing water near the intersection of State Road 75 and County Road 200 North due to heavy rainfall.
October 1996Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$500no account filed
April 2019FloodFrankfort$250There were some reports of flooding along several roads in and around Frankfort due to heavy rainfall. Some of the flooding had already receded at the time of reporting.
June 2023HailFrankfort-Thunderstorm hail as large as nickels reported in Frankfort.
May 2014HailFrankfort-Thunderstorm wind gusts of up to 50 mph were also reported.
November 2011HailFrankfort-Quarter sized hail was reported at the Clinton County EMA office.
November 2011HailFrankfort-Golf ball sized hail was reported by an ambulance driver at the intersection of Jackson and Wabash Streets.
February 2009FloodFrankfort-Two Frankfort, Indiana residences of unspecified location were evacuated due to high water. Sandbags were put in place near the high school. State Route 28 was closed due to flooding. Report was received by the Frankfort police.
June 2009HailFrankfort-Nickel sized hail was observed on the north side of Frankfort.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-The wind gust was measured by a mesonet.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-Trees were reported down around the city due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
October 2007HailFrankfort-Hail was reported on SR 38.
March 2005Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-A few trees were blown down west of Frankfort.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in Frankfort.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-Light to moderate structural damage was reported to some homes, and the top of a semi trailer was blown off. A factory roof was torn off and tractor trailers were blown over. A personal weather station measured a wind gust to 91 mph.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-Trees were blown down.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-Trees were downed.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-Numerous trees and power lines were down across town.
March 2024HailFrankfort-no account filed
March 2017HailFrankfort-no account filed
July 2012HailFrankfort-no account filed
May 2011HailFrankfort-no account filed
June 2008HailFrankfort-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-no account filed
April 2006HailFrankfort-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-no account filed
May 2006HailFrankfort-no account filed
May 2006HailFrankfort-no account filed
January 2005Flash FloodFrankfort-no account filed
May 2005HailFrankfort-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-no account filed
June 2005HailFrankfort-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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

6 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Frankfort Commercial Historic Districtunder 500 feet1998
South Frankfort Historic Districtunder 500 feet2009
Old Frankfort Stone High School0.1 miles1979
Charles H. and Emma Condon House0.4 miles1997
Christian Ridge Historic District0.4 miles2003
TPA Park0.8 miles2019

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78000027 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clinton CountyAll 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.
  • 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.