Hooker County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Hooker County Courthouse, located on Cleveland Ave. between Railroad and 1st Sts. in Mullen, Nebraska, is a courthouse building of Hooker County, Nebraska. It was a work of Grand Island architect Oscar R.”
Wikipedia article Hooker County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Hooker County · listed in 1990 · category: District.

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. Cleveland Ave. between Railroad and 1st Sts., Mullen, 69152
When was it listed? January 1990
Category. district
Also known as. County Courthouses of Nebraska MPS
Precinct. Mullen precinct
National Register reference number. 89002218 - 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

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Hooker County Courthouse between 1999 and 2012, burning about 2,313 acres in total. 6 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
Natural	6
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
29 August 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
26 August 2012	Natural	40 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
26 August 2012	Natural	50 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
26 August 2012	Natural	135 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
21 August 2005	Natural	50 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
17 August 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
1 August 2012	Natural	5.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
5 July 2008	Natural	10 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Hooker County

Storms near this property

60 of 275 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mullen, the town this property stands in, in 275 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 190 hail, 63 thunderstorm wind, 10 tornado, 9 funnel cloud. 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	Flash Flood	Mullen	$500,000	Flash flood waters washed out 2 miles of county road.
June 2000	Hail	Mullen	$250,000	Significant damage to grassland in Hooker county and property in the Mullen area as a thunderstorm dropped hail covering the ground several inches deep in some areas.
July 2009	Hail	Mullen	$100,000	The cooperative observer reported the tennis ball size hail.
July 2007	Hail	Mullen	$35,000	A supercell storm dropped very large hail as it moved south along Highway 97 through the Dismal River area. The hail damaged roofs and vehicles.
June 2005	Hail	Mullen	$30,000	Large hail broke windshields and heavily damaged vehicles.
July 2007	Hail	Mullen	$30,000	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Mullen	$25,000	Windows were broken out of house with cars stuck on Highway 97 due to the hail.
July 2000	Hail	Mullen	$25,000	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Mullen	$15,000	The large hail damaged a few roofs and vehicles.
June 2009	Hail	Mullen	$15,000	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Mullen	$15,000	no account filed
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Mullen	$10,000	Numerous tree limbs reported down in Mullen.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Mullen	$10,000	Law Enforcement reported power outages in Mullen and street signs knocked down.
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Mullen	$10,000	Law enforcement reported a stop sign blown down along with several three to five inch diameter tree limbs down throughout the town. The downed tree limbs help take out power lines on the west side of town.
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Mullen	$10,000	Law enforcement reported tree damage and numerous power lines down in Mullen.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Mullen	$10,000	A 40 foot radio tower was blown down and 8 inch tree limbs were snapped.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Mullen	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds caused extensive tree damage in the community of Mullen.
June 2015	Hail	Mullen	$10,000	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Mullen	$10,000	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Mullen	$10,000	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Mullen	$10,000	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Mullen	$10,000	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Mullen	$10,000	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Mullen	$9,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Mullen	$7,000	Thunderstorm wind damaged, broke, or blew down numerous trees southwest of Mullen and in Mullen.
June 1999	Hail	Mullen	$7,000	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Mullen	$6,000	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Mullen	$6,000	no account filed
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Mullen	$5,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH blew shingles off of a house.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Mullen	$5,000	Multiple trees and power lines reported down in Mullen.
May 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Mullen	$5,000	Numerous trained storm spotters reported the touchdown of the tornado approximately 17 miles south southwest of Mullen. The tornado traveled across open rangeland until encountering one ranch. As it moved past the ranch, it demolished a metal windbreak, a tower, an outbuilding, and a windmill. The tornado also broke off large trees and carried a pickup cab 100 feet. The tornado then continued on a east-southeast track carrying debris 2 miles. The tornado was on the ground for about 3.5 miles.
May 2009	Hail	Mullen	$5,000	A few golf ball size hailstones were reported in the vicinity of a dissipated tornado near Highway 97 and the Dismal River.
June 2009	Hail	Mullen	$5,000	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Mullen	$5,000	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Mullen	$4,000	no account filed
June 2014	Lightning	Mullen	$3,000	Two cows were struck by lightning and died.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Mullen	$3,000	60 mph thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs in Mullen.
June 2006	Hail	Mullen	$3,000	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Mullen	$3,000	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Mullen	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds snapped off large tree limbs and destroyed a small shed.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Mullen	$2,000	Large tree limbs down.
August 2002	Hail	Mullen	$2,000	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Mullen	$2,000	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Mullen	$1,500	no account filed
July 2013	Hail	Mullen	$1,000	A sheriff's deputy reported his wind shield was broken out by ping pong ball sized hail on Highway 97 near Mile Marker 55.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Mullen	$1,000	TREE LIMBS DOWN
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Mullen	$1,000	Large tree down.
August 2005	Hail	Mullen	$1,000	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Mullen	$1,000	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Mullen	$1,000	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Mullen	$1,000	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Mullen	$1,000	no account filed
August 2025	Hail	Mullen	-	Large quantity of hail with drifting noted.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Mullen	-	Thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 MPH, reported at this location.
July 2024	Hail	Mullen	-	Report via social media. Time estimated from radar.
June 2024	Tornado (EF2)	Mullen	-	EF-2 damage was observed at several locations in Hooker County as the tornado continued to track south southeast.
July 2024	Hail	Mullen	-	Report via social media with hail up to 4 inches in diameter.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Mullen	-	A trained spotter estimated 60 to 70 mph winds.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Mullen	-	Thunderstorm wind gust of 60 MPH estimated at this location.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Mullen	-	Thunderstorm wind gust.

Every storm recorded in Hooker 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 89002218 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hooker County	All 1 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.
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.