Morrison County Courthouse

Built in 1890 (Richardsonian Romanesque). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Morrison County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Little Falls, Minnesota. The building was completed in 1890 or 1891 and still serves as the county courthouse today.”
Wikipedia article Morrison County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Morrison County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1890, Richardsonian Romanesque.

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. 107 2nd St. SE, Little Falls, 56345
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. building
City. Little Falls city
When was it built? 1890
Architectural style. Richardsonian Romanesque
National Register reference number. 78001552 - 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

215 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Morrison County Courthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 678 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 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	97
Equipment and vehicle use	37
Arson/incendiarism	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Railroad operations and maintenance	16
Smoking	13
Recreation and ceremony	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 September 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 August 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Morrison County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Morrison County Courthouse: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Water, Free, Aluminum, Iron, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Mississippi River Area Clays	Titanium, Water, Free, Aluminum, Iron, Silica	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Morrison County

Storms near this property

46 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Falls, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 20 thunderstorm wind, 19 hail, 2 flood, 2 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 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	$75,000	Significant wind damage occurred to city-owned property of the Little Falls Golf Course. There were 53 trees lost to the storm, along with several large branches. There were also several buildings damage to the local Little Falls Community School District. Dozens of trees were also broken or uprooted in the southeast part of town. A damage survey by the NWS was performed and it appeared to have been downburst damage.
June 2001	Flash Flood	Little Falls	$20,000	Little Elk River in Randall overflowed. Skunk River in Pierz overflowed and undermined Park Road bridge. Many highways and basements flooded.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Trees down in the Little Falls with a measured wind gust of 65 mph.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	A few trees were down, including one on a power line.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Tree down on the 700 block of 6th St NE. Time estimated via radar.
June 2022	Heavy Rain	Little Falls	-	Storm total from overnight thunderstorms 4.00 inches.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	A measured wind report from a private weather sensor.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	There were numerous reports of downed trees in the Little Falls area.
July 2019	Hail	Little Falls	-	There were reports of hail throughout the county, with the largest hailstone being ping pong ball size in Little Falls.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	A tree was blown onto a house in Little Falls.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	A tree was blown down across a road in Little Falls.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Several trees were blown down in Little Falls.
June 2013	Heavy Rain	Little Falls	-	Storm total rainfall amount of 3.73 inches was measured near Little Falls.
March 2010	Flood	Little Falls	-	Highway 10 bridge was closed due to an ice jam.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Dozens of trees also reported down in vicinity.
August 2007	Hail	Little Falls	-	Hail covered the ground.
August 2007	Hail	Little Falls	-	Hail covered the ground.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Two trees down in and near spotter residence. Additional trees and power lines down on the west side of town.
June 2007	Hail	Little Falls	-	Heavy rain also reported.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	A tree was reported felled in Belle Prairie Township.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Tree limbs were downed in the southwest part of town.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Two hangars, a maintenance garage, and the roof of the terminal building were damaged by winds measured at 78 MPH at the airport in the southeast corner of town. A large tree also fell onto a truck at the airport. In town, Oak trees up to 40 feet tall and several branches were blown down.
August 2005	Hail	Little Falls	-	Penny sized hail falling along Highway 27 stopped traffic.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	A tree was downed between two homes on 7th Street SE.
September 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Several trees were downed, including one in Pine Grove Park.
June 2001	Hail	Little Falls	-	This was the last severe report from a series of storms that formed in Douglas County near Rose City, produced a tornado 3 E Long Prairie in Todd County, and moved into Morrison County.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Grove of trees felled.
July 2000	Flood	Little Falls	-	Two to three inches rain in less than two hours caused minor street flooding, with two vehicles stranded.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Trees blown down.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Estimated winds, trees down.
July 1999	Tornado (F0)	Little Falls	-	Large trees down.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Falls	-	Trees down from thunderstorm winds.
May 2022	Hail	Little Falls	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Little Falls	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Little Falls	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Little Falls	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Little Falls	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Little Falls	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Little Falls	-	no account filed
September 2002	Hail	Little Falls	-	no account filed
September 2002	Hail	Little Falls	-	no account filed
June 2001	Funnel Cloud	Little Falls	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Little Falls	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Little Falls	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Little Falls	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Little Falls	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morrison 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
Little Falls Commercial Historic District	0.1 miles	1994
Little Falls Carnegie Library	0.1 miles	1980
Church of Our Savio-Episcopal	0.2 miles	1980
Burton-Rosenmeier House	0.4 miles	1986
Weyerhaeuser, Charles A., and Musser, Richard Drew, Houses	0.4 miles	1985
Northern Pacific Railway Depot	0.5 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001552 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Morrison County	All 15 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.
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.