Hillsdale County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Hillsdale County Courthouse is a government building located at 29 North Howell Street in Hillsdale, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1969 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.”
Wikipedia article Hillsdale County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Hillsdale County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

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. Howell St, Hillsdale, 49242
When was it listed? August 1982
Category. building
City. Hillsdale city
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
Architect. Claire Allen
National Register reference number. 82002835 - 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

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Hillsdale County Courthouse between 2018 and 2019, burning about 10 acres in total. 3 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
Natural	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

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
5 August 2018	Natural	5.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HILLSDALE CITY FD 0000796 - 2018
8 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HILLSDALE CITY FD 0000696 - 2018
6 April 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HILLSDALE CITY FD 0000410 - 2019
26 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HILLSDALE CITY FD 0000297 - 2018
4 December 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HILLSDALE RURAL FD 0019114 - 2019
10 November 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HILLSDALE CITY FD 0001335 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Hillsdale County

Storms near this property

60 of 72 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsdale, the town this property stands in, in 72 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 62 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2001	Lightning	Hillsdale	1 killed	Man went outside to check possible lightning damage to barn. While standing outside of barn was hitby lightning and died shortly after at Hillsdale Community Health Center.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	1 hurt, $50,000	Hillsdale County officials reported trees and power lines were downed by straight-line thunderstorm winds across Allen, Adams, and Wheatland townships. Four barns were destroyed at 3120 East Bacon Road in Hillsdale and damage was done to the home at the same address. One woman sustained minor injuries when the trailer she was in parked on Meadow Lane tipped over.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$100,000	SEVERAL TREES DOWN ACROSS THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF THE COUNTY INCLUDING ONE WHOLE LINE OF POWER POLES WHICH WERE FLATTENED TO THE GROUND.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$50,000	WIDESPREAD TREE DAMAGE AND POWER LINES DOWN ACROSS THE COUNTY.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$20,000	Trees and power lines down throughout the county.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$20,000	A pole barn was destroyed west of Hillsdale.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$15,000	A pole barn was destroyed in the area.
May 2024	Hail	Hillsdale	$12,000	no account filed
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$10,000	Dispatch reports a few trees and powerlines down across the county.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$10,000	Several reports of trees and wires down within the county.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$10,000	Scattered reports of trees down in and around the Hillsdale area as well as western parts of the county.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$10,000	A tree was blown down on car. Damage is estimated at $10,000.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$10,000	Power lines reported down in the area.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$10,000	Barn blown down. Numerous trees down.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$10,000	Trees and power lines down in northeast part of Hillsdale County.
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$8,000	no account filed
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$5,000	Windows were blown out of homes and businesses.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$2,500	Hillsdale County Emergency Operations reported a couple of trees downed 2 miles west of Hillsdale.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$2,500	Minor tree damage reported, with limbs strewn along portions of U.S. Highway 12.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$2,000	Power lines and a tree reported down.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$1,000	A tree, as well as power lines, were reported down in the city of Hillsdale.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Large limbs down.
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Trees down, some onto buildings. Power lines and poles down.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Emergency management officials reported numerous trees and power lines down across the county.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Three inch tree limbs broken. Power poles broken. Report from MPing.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Multiple trees down in Hillsdale.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Several reports of trees and powerlines down across northern Hillsdale County from 2230 to 2300 EDT.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Power poles broken, along with three inch tree limbs.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	EM reports numerous trees and power lines down across Hillsdale County.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Numerous reports of trees and large tree limbs being blown down in Hillsdale.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Emergency management officials reported several trees were blown down around the county, some onto power lines.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Emergency management officials reported numerous trees down across mainly the northern half of the county.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Emergency management officials reported multiple trees down in the Hillsdale and surrounding areas.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down on the south side of Hillsdale.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Emergency management officials reported trees and power lines down in and around Hillsdale.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Emergency management officials reported trees down across the county.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Trees and power lines down.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Numerous trees down.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Emergency management officials reported trees down across the northern part of the county.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Emergency management officials reported tree limbs and a few trees down in and around Hillsdale.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Trees were reported down across mainly the northern part of the county.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Numerous trees reported down across the county.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Several additional large trees reported down across the northwestern part of the county.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	The emergency manager reported a 2.5 foot diameter tree down just southwest of Hillsdale. Reports of small trees down were also received in the city of Hillsdale.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Three larger trees were blown down.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	A few trees were reported down west of Hillsdale.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Tree reported blown down at the intersection of Holcomb and East Bacon roads.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Power lines blown down in the city of Hillsdale.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Trees and power lines down.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Emergency management reported trees down in the city of Hillsdale.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	A tree was reported down blocking a road.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Tree was blown down onto a house in the city. No damage estimates were available and no injuries were reported.
August 2003	Tornado (F0)	Hillsdale	-	A brief touchdown was observed by fire personnel near Sterling and Walworth roads. No damage or injuries were reported with the touchdown.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Trees and power lines down.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Trees reported down in the area.
September 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Emergency management reported trees down northeast of Hillsdale.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Law Enforcement reported large tree limbs down west of Hillsdale.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down in Hillsdale.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Two trees blown down and transformer knocked out.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Trees down.

Every storm recorded in Hillsdale 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

5 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
Hillsdale Downtown Historic District	0.1 miles	1995
William R. Kirby Sr. House	2.8 miles	1982
E. O. Grosvenor House	4.5 miles	1977
Deal, J.J., and Son Carriage Factory	4.6 miles	2012
Grace Episcopal Church	4.6 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002835 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hillsdale 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.
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.