Le Sueur County Courthouse and Jail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

“The Le Sueur County Courthouse and Jail are government buildings in Le Center, Minnesota, United States. They were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.”
Wikipedia article Le Sueur County Courthouse and Jail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Le Sueur County · listed in 1981 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 88 S. Park Ave. and 130 S. Park Ave., Le Center, 56057
When was it listed? February 1981
Category. building
Also known as. Le Sueur County MRA
City. Le Center city
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 81000682 - 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.

Storms near this property

32 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Le Center, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 16 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flood. 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
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Center	$50,000	A swath of downed trees and power lines occurred from Le Center to Montgomery. At one point, the local utility company had near 150 members working on the power outages.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Center	$15,000	A tree blew down on a trailer in Le Center.
May 2012	Hail	Le Center	$500	Some of the hail broke windows.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Center	-	Report of a tree down in Le Center.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Center	-	A large pine tree was down on a power line.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Center	-	A few trees were toppled in the town of Le Center.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Center	-	A semi-trailer was blown off the road east of Le Center.
July 2013	Heavy Rain	Le Center	-	A measured rainfall amount of 3.25 inches fell in less than 3 hours.
March 2010	Flood	Le Center	-	County Road 113 near Le Center was closed due to flooding.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Center	-	Measured at Le Center High School.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Center	-	More than 40 trees were downed or damaged at a country club on 376th Street.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Center	-	Power lines were downed.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Center	-	Nineteen trees were downed at a farming showground on County Road 26. A 26-foot camper was also rocked by the high winds on site.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Center	-	Trees down. Estimated windspeed.
June 1997	Hail	Le Center	-	Trees also reported down on south side of Jefferson Lake.
July 2024	Hail	Le Center	-	no account filed
July 2024	Hail	Le Center	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Le Center	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Le Center	-	no account filed
April 2022	Hail	Le Center	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Le Center	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Le Center	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Le Center	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Le Center	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Le Center	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Le Center	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Le Center	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Le Center	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Le Center	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Le Center	-	no account filed
June 1998	Tornado (F0)	Le Center	-	no account filed
August 1997	Tornado (F0)	Le Center	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Le Sueur 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

3 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
Dodd Road Discontiguous District	6.1 miles	2003
German Evangelical Salem Church	7.3 miles	1982
Geldner Sawmill	7.9 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 81000682 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Le Sueur County	All 28 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.
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.