Built in 1888 (Richardsonian Romanesque). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
From the record
“The Casey County Courthouse, on Courthouse Square in Liberty, Kentucky was built in 1888. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.”
Wikipedia article Casey County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 2 National Register listings published here for Casey County · listed in 1977 · category: Building · built in 1888, Richardsonian Romanesque, by McDonald Brothers.
National Register reference number.77000607- 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
50 since 1998
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Casey County Courthouse
between 1998 and 2016, burning about 740 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 were 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
16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
13
Arson/incendiarism
10
Recreation and ceremony
7
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Liberty, the town this property stands in, in 56 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 38 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 flood.
The reports record 1 death and 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.
A barn was destroyed and several others were heavily damaged norhteast of Middleburg on Highway 198. Several large pine trees were snapped on a golf course on Short Town Road.
The Casey County Emergency Manager reported water rescues due to high water across numerous roads. Many roads across the county were closed due to the flash flooding.
Casey County water rescue had worked 2 water rescues. Widespread flash flooding had occurred in Liberty and Yosemite. KY Hwy 127 was closed in Liberty. Damage amount unknown.
A Casey County law enforcement official reported that trees fell down across KY 49 and KY 70 in Liberty. The officer also reported numerous other trees down across the county.
Multiple roads were closed throughout Casey county. Several residences were flooded and several motorists were stranded. Highways 127, 70, and 501 were all impassable in spots.
A building in Liberty had partial roof damage. Trees and power poles were downed elsewhere across the county. An eSpotter reported an estimated wind gusts of 70 mph.
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
1 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.
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.
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