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One of 6 National Register listings published here for Jewell County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Jewell County Jail
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Jct. of Center and Madison, NE corner, Mankato, 66956
- When was it listed? May 1995
- Category. building
- Township. Center township
- Architect. James C. Holland
- National Register reference number. 95000511 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
2 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Jewell County Jail between 2017 and 2018, 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Jewell County | 2 |
| 18 February 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018001 |
Storms near this property
49 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mankato, the town this property stands in, in 49 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 35 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2023 | Hail | Mankato | $1,000,000 | Hail up to the size of tennis balls was reported in Mankato. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Mankato | $1,000,000 | A long-lived supercell produced a substantial swath of very large hail in the Mankato and Jewell areas, with large hail produced for a significant amount of time. A public report of golf ball size hail was received at 7:45 p.m. CDT in Mankato. By 7:50 p.m. CDT, the hail size in Mankato reached a measured diameter of 4 inches, with tennis ball size hail still falling in town at 8:10 p.m. CDT. At 8:13 p.m. CDT, golf ball size hail was reported about 3 miles northwest of Randall. At 8:15 p.m. CDT, 4 inch diameter hail was reported 2 miles north of Jewell, with baseball size hail in Jewell. Significant hail damage to homes, vehicles and crops occurred in the area. As just one example, local media reported that the Jewell County EMS Director's vehicle incurred major hail damage, including a shattered windshield. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | $500,000 | Extremely strong thunderstorm winds caused extensive tree and structural damage across the area. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Mankato | $150,000 | Hail up to the size of tennis balls was reported. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | $50,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH resulted in tree limbs being downed in Mankato and a power pole being snapped near Montrose. In the Lovewell State Park area, a roof of an old radio communications building was torn off and nearby crops were damaged. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | $50,000 | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | $25,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 65 MPH resulted in some tree damage in Mankato, including one large tree downed at the county courthouse. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Mankato | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Mankato | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Mankato | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Mankato | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Mankato | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Mankato | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Mankato | $15,000 | no account filed |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | $10,000 | Tree damage was reported in Mankato. |
| April 2005 | Heavy Rain | Mankato | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | $5,000 | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. One power pole caught on fire due to arcing power lines. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Mankato | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Mankato | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 1993 | Hail | Mankato | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Mankato | $2,000 | One inch hail was reported at the junction of Highways 14 and 36. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Mankato | $2,000 | no account filed |
| September 1993 | Hail | Mankato | $500 | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Mankato | $50 | no account filed |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | - | Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH caused minor tree damage in Mankato. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Mankato | - | Nickel size hail was reported at the junction of Highway 36 and Highway 14. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Mankato | - | Peas to nickel size hail occurred. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mankato | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Mankato | - | no account filed |
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
4 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | First National Bank | under 500 feet | 1976 |
 | Jewell County Courthouse | under 500 feet | 2002 |
 | Burr Oak United Methodist Church | 7.5 miles | 2007 |
 | Burr Oak School | 7.6 miles | 2005 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 95000511 in Record Group 79. |
| Jewell 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.
- 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.