Brown County Courthouse Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Brown County Courthouse Historic District is a historic courthouse and national historic district located at Nashville, Indiana. It encompasses three contributing buildings: the courthouse, Old Log Jail, and the Historical Society Museum Building.”
Wikipedia article Brown County Courthouse Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Brown County · listed in 1983 · category: District.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Courthouse, Old Log Jail, and the Historical Society Museum Bldg., Nashville, 47448
When was it listed? July 1983
Category. district
Township. Washington township
National Register reference number. 83000050 - 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.

Fires near this property

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Brown County Courthouse Historic District in 2009, burning about 5 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
Recreation and ceremony	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
15 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	135 CAMPFIRE

Every fire recorded in Brown 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 Brown County Courthouse Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone, Stone. 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
	Brown County Highway Dept.	Stone	Producer
	Brown County Stone Co Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms near this property

60 of 61 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nashville, the town this property stands in, in 61 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 34 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 7 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
May 1996	Lightning	Nashville	1 hurt	no account filed
April 2025	Flash Flood	Nashville	$100,000	Water flowing over a bridge on State Road 135. Several water rescues completed. Total rainfall ranged from 2.6 to 3.4 inches.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Nashville	$50,000	Dispatch reports a crew headed to rescue residents that were possibly trapped after a small dam failure due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall.
May 1996	Tornado (F1)	Nashville	$50,000	no account filed
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	$25,000	Numerous tree tops downed and trees toppled at the west gate of the Brown County State Park.
January 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	$25,000	Part of the roof on the Nashville Elementary School was blown off due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Water damage occurred to some of the classrooms.
May 2002	Flash Flood	Nashville	$25,000	no account filed
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	$15,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts blew down a tree blown onto a car with people.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Nashville	$15,000	Rainfall, reported as great as 3.35 inches west-northwest of Nashville, produced flash flooding in the Nashville area. Water flowed over a bridge near the Nashville General Store.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	$10,000	Multiple trees and power lines were downed due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	$8,000	Reports received of trees and power lines down near Highway 46 in Brown County due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2015	Flash Flood	Nashville	$5,000	Widespread flooding was occurring in Nashville due to heavy thunderstorm rainfall.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Nashville	$5,000	Roadways were covered and previous flooding conditions were exacerbated due to heavy rainfall that caused renewed flash flooding.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	$2,000	Trees and power lines were reported down blocking State Route 135 due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	$1,000	Tree of unknown size downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	$1,000	A two foot diameter tree was downed due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	$1,000	A transformer was damaged as a result of thunderstorm winds.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	$1,000	Trees down
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	$500	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees in Trevelac.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	$500	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	$500	Thunderstorm winds blew a few trees down in Belmont.
April 2017	Hail	Nashville	-	This report was relayed by law enforcement.
April 2013	Hail	Nashville	-	Hail, ranging in size from one to two inches, was observed in this location.
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2006	Hail	Nashville	-	No property damage estimates were available.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Trees were downed.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Several trees were blown down.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Trees were blown down.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Trees were downed.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Trees and power lines were downed.
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Seven pine trees were downed in Yellowwood State Forest.
October 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Trees were blown down near Brown County State Park.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Numerous trees down
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	Trees down
May 2025	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
July 2024	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
April 2013	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
March 2012	Funnel Cloud	Nashville	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
November 2005	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Nashville	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	no account filed
February 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	no account filed
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	no account filed
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Nashville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Nashville Historic District	under 500 feet	2022
F.P. Taggart Store	under 500 feet	1983
Brown County Bridge No. 36	3.5 miles	1993
Bean Blossom Covered Bridge	3.7 miles	2022
Brown County State Park	4.4 miles	2020
Theodore Clement Steele House and Studio	7.1 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83000050 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Brown County	All 9 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.