Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
From the record
“Linn County Jail and Sheriff's Residence is a historic jail and sheriff's residence located in Linneus, Linn County, Missouri. It was built in 1871 and is a two-story, five-bay, Greek Revival style I-house constructed of concrete, wood, and brick.”
Wikipedia article Linn County Jail and Sheriff's Residence, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Linn County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.00001659- 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 Locust Creek township. The inset identifies its exact
source book and publication year.
Oil the morning of Febrnarj 10, 1867, Sid Nichols, a man some fifty jears of age, with a good character for honesty, etc., living on a farm in the township, committed one of those horrible deeds of murder and self-destruction that sends a thrill of horror through the communitj^ in which it occurs. Mr.
The township is now composed of about equal portions of prairie and timber, some very excellent varieties of the latter abounding. The general surface is level. East and northeast of Linneus lies the finest portion of the township. In the northern part, among " the white oaks," or on Bear Branch, and along Locust Creek are the most broken parts of the territory. The greatest extent of timber is along Locust Creek, but perhaps the most valuable is on Muddy and Turkej'' Creeks. On the latter streams there is excellent oak and walnut timber in abundance.
A singular fact is to be recorded in this connection. When the township was first settled it was very difficult to find living water. Wells were dug to the depth of fifty feet or more without obtaining water. Especially in and around Linneus was this the case, and this state of affairs lasted for many years. Latterly this condition of things changed, and now Where once water could not be found, it gushes forth as readily and abundantly as it did from the rock at Horeb upon the smiting of the great Jewish lawgiver. Water-seers and well-wizards aver that the water is rising under all the surface of the earth in these parts.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Linn County Jail and Sheriff's Residence
between 1999 and 2018, burning about 161 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
12 workings within 5 miles of Linn County Jail and Sheriff's Residence: 12 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Linneus, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 9 hail, 9 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.
Thunderstorm straight line wind gusts were estimated from 80 to 100 mph. One residential building, just west of Highway 5, had its roof taken off. The residents were not home at the time. Many large trees were reported down, along with several barb wired fences.
About a mile to two miles south of the main tornado circulation widespread unidirectional wind damage occurred, likely as a result of a strong rear flank downdraft. This RFD wind was responsible for numerous damaged residences and outbuildings across Linn County.
About a mile to two miles south of the main tornado circulation widespread unidirectional wind damage occurred, likely as a result of a strong rear flank downdraft. This RFD wind was responsible for numerous damaged residences and outbuildings across Linn County.
About a mile to two miles south of the main tornado circulation widespread unidirectional wind damage occurred, likely as a result of a strong rear flank downdraft. This RFD wind was responsible for numerous damaged residences and outbuildings across Linn County.
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
4 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.
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.
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