Stoddard County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Stoddard County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Bloomfield, Stoddard County, Missouri. It was built between 1867 and 1870, as a two-story, brick building on a concrete foundation.”
Wikipedia article Stoddard County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Stoddard County · listed in 1984 · 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. Praire and Court Sts., Bloomfield, 63825
When was it listed? September 1984
Category. building
Township. Castor township
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
Architect. P.H. Weathers
National Register reference number. 84002718 - 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

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Stoddard County Courthouse between 1995 and 2020, burning about 175 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	3
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
27 September 2020	Debris and open burning	8.3 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	230920-10395-09272020-1600
7 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.4 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	177386-10395-08072018-1237
23 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	210550-10395-06232020-1805
13 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	210528-10395-06132020-1700
5 April 1995	Debris and open burning	122 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
23 October 2016	Recreation and ceremony	40 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	140842-10395-10232016-1728
2 October 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.8 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	179446-10395-10022019-1745

Every fire recorded in Stoddard County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 46 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 46 workings within 5 miles of Stoddard County Courthouse: 41 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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
Tertiary Land	Iron	Occurrence
Dunn Shaft	Clay	Past Producer
Unk	Clay	Past Producer
Brown Sand & Gravel-Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lemons Pit + Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Stoddard County

Storms near this property

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomfield, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$100,000	In Advance, the roof was blown off a block building, chain link fences were down, and numerous trees were down. On the school grounds in Advance, a dugout at a baseball field collapsed with students inside it. An auto dealership on the south edge of Advance lost its roof and back wall. No injuries were reported. In Bloomfield, large trees were down.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$50,000	Just west of Bloomfield, large trees were blown across homes and roadways. In Advance, an 80-year-old pecan tree blew down, landing on a new motor home. The motor home was extensively damaged.
June 2009	Hail	Bloomfield	$30,000	Hailstones measuring 3 inches in diameter were photographed by an observer east of Bloomfield. Vehicles received considerable damage. Golf-ball size hail was reported north of Bloomfield.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$30,000	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$25,000	Numerous trees were uprooted. Roofing was peeled off a number of buildings, including part of the county courthouse.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$20,000	Numerous large trees were blown down. One tree fell on a house. A shed was flipped upside down and tossed across a yard.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$5,000	Several trees were blown down.
September 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$4,000	A few trees were blown down.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$4,000	A few trees were uprooted.
May 2006	Hail	Bloomfield	$2,000	Golf-ball size hail fell in Bloomfield. Baseball-size hail fell on Highway 25 about two miles north of town. Photos of baseball-size hail, taken just northwest of Bloomfield, were published in the local newspaper. Little damage was reported at the residence where the hail occurred.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$1,000	Some small branches were broken in Bloomfield.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$1,000	A tree fell across the road.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$500	Scattered large trees were knocked down across the county. Power lines were also blown down east of Bloomfield.
March 2022	Flood	Bloomfield	-	Minor flooding was reported in low-lying areas.
March 2017	Hail	Bloomfield	-	Quarter-size hail occurred on the northwest side of town.
April 2014	Funnel Cloud	Bloomfield	-	Two funnel clouds were reported by trained spotters, possibly the remnants of the tornado that moved across western Stoddard County earlier.
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	-	Trees were blown down along County Highway 514.
November 2003	Lightning	Bloomfield	-	A commercial building was destroyed by a fire that was believed to have been started by lightning. Two discount stores were located in the building on Highway 25.
April 2002	Tornado (F0)	Bloomfield	-	A weak tornado briefly touched down near the intersection of Highway 25 and M Highway. No damage was reported.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	-	Scattered large trees were knocked down across the county. Power lines were also blown down east of Bloomfield.
March 2006	Hail	Bloomfield	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Bloomfield	-	no account filed
August 2003	Heavy Rain	Bloomfield	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Bloomfield	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Bloomfield	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Bloomfield	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Bloomfield	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stoddard 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
	Henry Miller House	0.4 miles	2018
	Dexter Gymnasium	6.8 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84002718 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stoddard 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.