Built in 1908 (Beaux-Arts). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
From the record
“The Jackson County Courthouse, located at 413 4th Street in the city of Jackson, Jackson County in the U.S. state of Minnesota consists of a Bedford limestone Beaux Arts courthouse featuring a high, segmented dome adorned with a cast statue of Lady Justice, columns supporting a gable overhang, a shield pediment, and symmetrical pavilions.”
Wikipedia article Jackson County Courthouse (Minnesota), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 5 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1977 · category: Building · built in 1908, Beaux-Arts, by Buechner & Orth.
National Register reference number.77000747- 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.
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Jackson city. The inset identifies its exact
source book and publication year.
During the time these claims were being filed upon and before Jackson was. platted a few cabins were erected. On the east side of the river stood the old fort which had been erected by the soldiers after the massacre of 1862; the Joseph Thomas cabin, which had been erected by William T. Wheeler in 185G; and the cabin of Israel F.
The population of Jackson, according to the census of 1905, was 1,776, but there has been an increase since that, and a census today would show a population of about 2,000. Jackson is one of the progressive and prosperous towns of southwestern Minnesota. All lines of business that are to be found in the towns of the agricultural communities of the upper Mississippi valley' are represented. It is noted for its schools, churches and social organizations, and in this respect it is the peer of any town of its size in the state.
The location of Jackson, considered in its natural state, is one of unusual beauty ; southwestern Minnesota has not a more lovely spot. Here the Des Moines river forms a semi-circle, and on the hills and benches on either side of that stream is builded the city. On the east side are hills and bluffs, covered with a heavy growth of natural timber ; on the west side are a succession of benches. On the lower bench is the business part of the city, while on the higher ground of the next rise is the residence portion. The bluffs and hills surrounding protect the little city from the wintry winds of the prairies.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Jackson County Courthouse: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Jackson, the town this property stands in, in 62 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 35 hail, 22 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado.
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.
Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a few trees blown down. One of the trees severely damaged a van when it fell, with several other vehicles receiving minor damage from wind blown debris. The winds damaged crops in the area, but the amount of crop damage was not known.
Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree and crop damage, including 8 inch diameter trees blown down. The crop damage was most severe to corn, with soybean crops expected to show a greater recovery. The winds also caused a steel culvert, which was 50 feet long and 6 feet in diameter, to roll over a half mile.
A 240-foot-long pole building under construction was blown down as well as several trees. Steele County Meriden,17,1645CST,,,0,0,2,0,Thunderstorm Winds Powerful thunderstorm winds blew over a large shed, along with numerous power lines.
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
2 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.
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.
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