Doniphan County Courthouse

Built in 1905 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Doniphan County Courthouse, located in Courthouse Square in Troy, is the seat of government of Doniphan County, Kansas. The courthouse was built from 1905 to 1906 and was the fourth courthouse in the county.”
Wikipedia article Doniphan County Courthouse (Kansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Doniphan County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1905, Romanesque Revival architecture, by George P. Washburn.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. Courthouse Sq., bounded by Walnut, Liberty, Chestnut, and Main Sts., Troy, 66087
When was it listed? July 1974
Category. building
Township. Center township
When was it built? 1905
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
Architect. George P. Washburn
National Register reference number. 74000826 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

10 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Doniphan County Courthouse between 2015 and 2018, burning about 14 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	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
7 April 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	12
9 March 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	5
31 March 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	13
31 March 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	12
31 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	14
12 March 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	11
11 March 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	10
11 March 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	8

Every fire recorded in Doniphan County

Storms near this property

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Troy, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 15 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	$15,000	Roof blown off a metal machine shed. Two other metal sheds were destroyed and a barn and residence had roof damage.
October 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	Social media report of downed power poles near Troy.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	Tree limbs down in the area, with 60 mph estimated winds.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	Emergency Manager reported 60 to 70 mph wind gusts.
May 2016	Hail	Troy	-	This report was gathered via social media.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	A large tree of unknown condition or size was down on Seneca Street in Troy. Various tree limbs were also down across town.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	Several trees of unknown size or condition were down.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	A spotter estimated winds to be around 65 mph.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	Large tree reported down.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	Wind gusts to 70 mph were reported by the public.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	The fire department estimated wind gusts at 60 mph.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	The Doniphan County Sheriff Office reported a 60 MPH wind gust a mile east of Troy.
June 1997	Hail	Troy	-	Dime-size hail was reported by the sheriff's office 7 miles west of Troy during a severe thunderstorm.
March 1995	Hail	Troy	-	Time estimated.
May 2019	Hail	Troy	-	no account filed
October 2013	Hail	Troy	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Troy	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Troy	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Troy	-	no account filed
March 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Troy	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Troy	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Troy	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Troy	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Troy	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Troy	-	no account filed
March 1993	Hail	Troy	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Doniphan 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
Doniphan County Courthouse Square Historic District	under 500 feet	2002
George Kinkhead Barn	0.5 miles	1987
Nicholas Bohr Barn	4.7 miles	1987
Fred W. Kienhoff Barn	4.9 miles	1987
Herman Chrystal Barn	5.3 miles	1987
John Silvers Barn	7.6 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000826 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Doniphan County	All 35 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.
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.