Lac qui Parle County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Lac qui Parle County Courthouse, located at 600 6th Street in Madison, Lac qui Parle County in the U.S. state of Minnesota is a Richardsonian Romanesque style building featuring a high central tower, built in 1899 at a cost of $30,689.”
Wikipedia article Lac qui Parle County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Lac qui Parle County · listed in 1985 · 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. 600 6th St., Madison, 56256
When was it listed? August 1985
Category. building
City. Madison city
Architectural style. Richardsonian Romanesque
National Register reference number. 85001759 - 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

60 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Madison, the town this property stands in, in 60 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 29 hail, 26 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$400,000	Barn blown down, killing one horse. Tree and shed damage. Approximately 8 miles of wind damage. Estimated windspeed.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$50,000	Several buildings in Madison sustained damage, with roofs ripped off and debris blocking roads. Power was out for nearly two hours.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$20,000	Numerous trees down, especially on south side of town. Few grain bins blown over. Tree fell on the roof of county museum.
June 2024	Hail	Madison	-	The hail measurement was provided by a broadcast meteorologist. Time estimated via radar.
May 2022	Tornado (EF1)	Madison	-	This tornado moved across the southeast section of Madison. A house had its roof removed, a camper was rolled, and three light poles at the baseball field were bent over. One of the poles had the cement support ripped out of the ground. There was also extensive tree damage. Maximum winds were estimated at 100 mph.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Numerous machine sheds and other buildings were destroyed or sustained major damage. The survey team noted a definite divergent pattern, indicating downburst. The greatest damage was several miles southeast of Louisburg, where a machine shed was obliterated, resulting in the 100 mph (87 knot) wind estimate.
August 2016	Heavy Rain	Madison	-	A trained spotter measured 5.55 inches of rain in Madison.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Several trees were snapped in Madison.
August 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Madison	-	Local law enforcement officials and other spotters observed a rope-like tornado occasionally touching down southwest of Madison. A damage survey noted a path through corn fields. It also knocked down several large trees and branches, dissipating near the northwest end of the Madison golf course.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Several large tree limbs were blown down at the Madison County Golf Course.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Scattered trees and power lines reported toppled in portions of Madison.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Tree damage reported.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Many trees one foot or more in diameter toppled, along with numerous branches of 6 inches in diameter or more, across the East side of town.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Wood fence snapped and tin roof damaged at radio station. Numerous trees downed around town, with many roads blocked. Flag pole, power lines and road signs felled.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Ten inch diameter tree downed.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Uprooted trees. Light tower bent over at baseball field.
June 2007	Hail	Madison	-	Hail occurred on west side of town. Hail stripped bark off several trees.
July 2006	Heavy Rain	Madison	-	Three inches reported in one hour, with 3.42 inches of total rain for the event.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Baseball dugout blown down.
July 2006	Hail	Madison	-	Some farmers around Dawson experienced large hail for 35 minutes, which decimated crops. The hail swath of golf ball size was about 2 miles wide, from just southeast of Madison, to the west side of Dawson, then to about 3 miles southeast of Dawson. From that point, one inch diameter hail continued to four miles west of Boyd.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Large branches down.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	A tree and several branches were downed onto roads and yards in town. The most concentrated area of damage was near 3rd Street and 2nd Avenue, including a tree that fell on a vacant house. A construction site about 5 miles southwest of Madison suffered building damage. Grain bins were also damaged in the area.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Several trees and power lines down.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Twelve inch diameter tree down.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Large tree branch fell on roof of house.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Car blown off road.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Estimated winds. Trees down, some on houses and sheds. Trailer flipped. Forty foot KLQP-FM relay tower downed.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Power lines down. Estimated windspeed.
July 1997	Lightning	Madison	-	Lightning strike killed one sheep.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Power poles knocked down. Grain bin destroyed. Large tree blown over onto house. Estimated windspeed.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	no account filed
September 2022	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	no account filed
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
September 1999	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lac qui Parle 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

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Madison Carnegie Library	0.2 miles	1985
	Madison City Hall	0.2 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001759 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lac qui Parle 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.
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.