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Photograph of Dawson County Courthouse
Photograph by Ammodramus, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dawson County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Dawson County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at 700 North Washington Street, between 7th and 8th streets in Lexington, Dawson County, Nebraska Dawson County, Nebraska. It was built during 1913-14 and is listed on the U.S.”

Wikipedia article Dawson County Courthouse (Nebraska), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Dawson 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, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Washington St. between 7th and 8th Sts., Lexington, 68850
  • When was it listed? January 1990
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. County Courthouses of Nebraska MPS
  • City. Lexington city
  • Architectural style. Beaux-Arts
  • National Register reference number. 89002236 - 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

84 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Dawson County Courthouse between 2007 and 2020, burning about 154 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use13
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking3
Fireworks3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Dawson County

Storms near this property

60 of 109 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lexington, the town this property stands in, in 109 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 72 hail, 30 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 flash flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2001HailLexington3 hurt, $15,000no account filed
May 2014HailLexington$2,000,000Hail ranging in size from quarters to baseballs was reported in town by trained spotters and law enforcement officials.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindLexington$1,000,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH accompanied hail to the size of golf balls.
July 2014HailLexington$1,000,000Hail ranging in size from quarters to half dollars was reported and accompanied wind gusts of 60 to 70 MPH.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLexington$1,000,000Wind gusts near and in Lexington were estimated to be between 60 and 70 MPH. These winds accompanied hail ranging in size from quarters to half dollars.
June 2022HailLexington$1,000,000no account filed
August 2017HailLexington$1,000,000no account filed
July 2024HailLexington$250,000Hail up to two inches in diameter was reported in the area.
August 2014HailLexington$250,000Hail ranging in size from golf balls to baseballs was reported and was accompanied by wind gusts estimated to be near 55 MPH.
September 2000LightningLexington$250,000no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLexington$150,000Tree limbs that were 8 to 10 inches in diameter were blown down.
July 2024HailLexington$125,000no account filed
June 2015HailLexington$100,000A small stretch of Highway 21 was completely covered in hail. Most hail stones were near the size of golf balls, with some as large as 3 in diameter.
July 2019Flash FloodLexington$100,000no account filed
May 2004HailLexington$100,000no account filed
August 2014HailLexington$50,000Hail ranging in size from quarters to golf balls was reported.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindLexington$50,000Trailers were blown onto their sides at Tyson Foods. The trailers were empty. Time was estimated from radar. A photo was received via Facebook of two full length truck trailers that were blown over.
July 2004HailLexington$50,000no account filed
May 1999Tornado (F1)Lexington$50,000no account filed
May 2001HailLexington$40,000no account filed
May 1998HailLexington$40,000no account filed
July 2004Flash FloodLexington$25,000Flooding in the streets of Lexington was up to 2 feet deep on some roads.
May 2013HailLexington$25,000no account filed
July 2011HailLexington$25,000no account filed
May 2005HailLexington$25,000no account filed
May 2005HailLexington$25,000no account filed
June 2005HailLexington$25,000no account filed
June 2005HailLexington$25,000no account filed
July 2004HailLexington$25,000no account filed
July 2004HailLexington$25,000no account filed
October 1998HailLexington$25,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindLexington$20,000no account filed
September 2015Thunderstorm WindLexington$15,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in tree damage in the area, with some limbs upwards of 6 to 8 inches in diameter. Power outages were reported in Lexington.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindLexington$15,000Thunderstorm winds in the form of a wet microburst turned a tractor-semitrailer on its side and destroyed an outbuilding.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindLexington$15,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindLexington$15,000no account filed
May 2004HailLexington$10,000no account filed
July 2004HailLexington$10,000no account filed
June 2008HailLexington$5,000Nickel to quarter size hail reported. Accompanied by heavy rain.
June 2008HailLexington$5,000no account filed
April 2007HailLexington$5,000no account filed
August 2001HailLexington$5,000no account filed
July 2000HailLexington$5,000no account filed
June 1998HailLexington$5,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLexington-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLexington-A wind gust of 64 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles east of Lexington.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLexington-A wind gust of 64 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles west-northwest of Lexington.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLexington-A wind gust of 68 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles east of Lexington.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindLexington-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindLexington-Spotter measured the wind gust with a hand held anemometer.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindLexington-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindLexington-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH. Reports from the area included damage to an irrigation well engine shed and a power pole knocked down approximately 1 mile east of Lexington and one mile north of Interstate 80. A large cottonwood tree was also knocked down east of Lexington.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindLexington-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindLexington-Wind gusts estimated at 70 MPH.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindLexington-Wind gusts estimated at 80 MPH.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindLexington-Wind gust measured at 59 mph from AWOS.
August 2007HailLexington-Winds blew at 40 to 50 mph with the hail.
April 2003Tornado (F0)Lexington-A brief tornado was observed in open country north of Lexington by a Nebraska State Patrol officer.
July 2024HailLexington-no account filed
May 2022HailLexington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dawson 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Temple, Harry V., House0.5 miles2019
Ira Webster Olive House0.5 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89002236 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dawson CountyAll 9 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.