Andrew County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Andrew County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Savannah, Andrew County, Missouri. It was built in 1898, and is a two-story, Romanesque Revival style rectangular brick and stone building.”
Wikipedia article Andrew County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Andrew County · listed in 1980 · 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. 4th and Main Sts., Savannah, 64485
When was it listed? September 1980
Category. building
Township. Nodaway township
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 80002308 - 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

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Andrew County Courthouse in 2017, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
12 January 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Andrew County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Andrew County Courthouse: 18 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Amazonia Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Avenue City Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Breit Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Burrie Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Knorr Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Schuster Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Stewart Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Andrew County

Storms near this property

60 of 64 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Savannah, the town this property stands in, in 64 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 33 hail, 28 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash 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 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	$50,000	Estimated 4 to 50 power poles snapped between Amazonia, Savannah, and Rosendale. Multiple trees were uprooted and broken in Savannah.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	$50,000	Power lines and poles were blown down.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	$25,000	Dime-size hail fell with strong thunderstorms from the Savannah area north to Rosendale. Thunderstorm winds also knocked down several large tree limbs northwest of Savannah.
July 2004	Flash Flood	Savannah	$10,000	Several roads washed out due to heavy rains.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	$1,000	Trees and power lines were reported down. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	$1,000	A powerpole was blown over on County Road 33. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	$1,000	Powerlines down.
March 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	$1,000	Power lines and trees reported down.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	$500	Several large trees were blown down in Rea with one falling through the roof of a house. Large trees were also blown down between Rosendale and Savannah.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	-	Downed wires near Business U.S. Highway 71 near 15th Terrace.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	-	Downed wires and power outages near Route E.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	-	Downed trees reported in Savannah from a second round of storms about 50 minutes after the initial round that also brought tree limbs down.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	-	Downed trees reported in Savannah.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	-	Estimated 60 mph wind gusts in Savannah.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	-	Public estimated a 60 mph wind gust.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	-	There were reports of a roof collapsed onto the building. No injuries were reported.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	-	A tractor trailer truck was reported to have jack-knifed, due to thunderstorm wind gusts estimated up to 60 mph.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	-	Thunderstorm winds were estimated to 60 mph.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	-	Tree was reported down and blocking a road.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Savannah	-	Service roads flooded from 2 inches of rain.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	-	Tree limbs down.
September 2004	Flash Flood	Savannah	-	High water due to heavy rains was observed on Route F and County Roads 257 and 253. A water rescue was needed for a stranded motorist on County Road 257.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	-	Storm spotters estimated wind gusts at 65 mph.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	-	The sheriff's department reported downed trees and power lines.
June 1998	Hail	Savannah	-	Dime-size hail was reported in Savannah by the Andrew County Sheriff's Office.
May 1997	Hail	Savannah	-	The public reported dime-size hail about 13 miles east of Savannah.
July 1995	Hail	Savannah	-	Severe thunderstorms produced dime-size hail near Andrew.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	-	Severe thunderstorms produced 60 mph winds and one inch hail in Savannah and golf ball-size hail in Rochester.
May 2019	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
October 2017	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
September 2014	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	-	no account filed
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
September 2004	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Savannah	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Savannah	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Andrew 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

1 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
	Walnut Park Farm Historic District	7.6 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002308 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Andrew County	All 3 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.