Lawrence County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Lawrence County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Mount Vernon, Lawrence County, Missouri. It was built in 1900, and is a rectangular, 2 1/2-story, Romanesque Revival style limestone building.”
Wikipedia article Lawrence County Courthouse (Missouri), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Lawrence 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. City Sq., Mount Vernon, 65712
When was it listed? September 1980
Category. building
Township. Mount Vernon township
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 80002374 - 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

30 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Lawrence County Courthouse between 2016 and 2020, burning about 86 acres 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	21
Debris and open burning	9

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
25 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	230726-05533-09252020-1816
21 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	230711-05533-09212020-1519
12 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	230801-05516-09122020-2005
28 August 2020	Debris and open burning	3.3 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	220645-05533-08282020-1647
11 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	177403-05533-08112018-1825
7 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	177221-05533-07072018-1340
25 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	177320-05533-07252018-1553
21 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	178998-05533-07212019-0022

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Lawrence County Courthouse: 16 past producers, 5 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Lead, Iron. 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
Unknown - Barite & Iron	Barium-Barite, Iron	Past Producer
Unknown - Clay	Kaolin	Past Producer
Unknown - Clay & Iron	Iron, Clay	Past Producer
Unknown - Lead	Lead	Prospect
Unknown - Iron	Iron	Past Producer
Unknown - Iron	Iron	Past Producer
Unknown - Lead & Zinc	Zinc, Lead	Prospect
Unknown - Lead & Zinc	Zinc, Lead	Prospect
Unknown - Lead & Zinc	Lead, Zinc	Prospect
Unknown - Lead & Zinc	Lead, Zinc	Prospect

Every working recorded in Lawrence 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002374 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lawrence County	All 4 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.