Falls County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Falls County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 objectss, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1 Courthouse Sq, Marlin, 76661
When was it listed? December 2000
Category. building
Census division. Marlin
Architectural style. Moderne architecture
National Register reference number. 00001532 - 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

42 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Falls County Courthouse between 2005 and 2020, burning about 336 acres in total. 2 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 burning	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROBERTS FIRE
30 August 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BUZZARD IN POWER LINES
29 August 2009	Natural	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DREWS HAY FIRE
16 August 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	AUCTION BARN FIRE
11 August 2009	Smoking	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RANDAZZO FIRE
1 August 2008	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
1 August 2008	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	704201602

Every fire recorded in Falls County

Storms near this property

57 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marlin, the town this property stands in, in 57 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 21 hail, 19 thunderstorm wind, 15 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlin	$50,000	A public report contained a photo of the roof at the World Finance building in Marlin, TX collapsed.
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlin	$50,000	Seventy-five to one hundred trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds. Several buildings were damaged by falling trees.
May 2020	Hail	Marlin	$25,000	Hail ranging from 1.5 - 2 was reported in Marlin via multiple sources. Damage to vehicles was reported.
April 2006	Hail	Marlin	$20,000	Several cars were damaged by golf ball-size hail.
April 2009	Flash Flood	Marlin	$10,000	Heritage Row at Live Oak Street was closed due to several inches of water over the road from heavy rain. Some drainage culverts were crushed by the weight of the water.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlin	$6,000	Snapped trees and downed trees were reported in Marlin via social media.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlin	$5,000	A tree was uprooted and fell on power lines. Garbage cans, lawn furniture, and tree limbs were also blown around.
March 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlin	$5,000	A large barn was blown down and large trees were uprooted.
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlin	$5,000	no account filed
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlin	$2,000	The facing was blown off the front of a store by thunderstorm winds.
May 2025	Flash Flood	Marlin	-	Emergency manager reported street flooding with water level above the bottom of a car in Marlin.
April 2023	Flood	Marlin	-	A trained spotter reported street flooding about a mile east-southeast of Marlin, TX, with up to 5 inches of water on the road.
June 2019	Hail	Marlin	-	Broadcast media reported quarter size hail in the city of Marlin, TX.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlin	-	Falls County Sheriff's Department reported 10 to 12 inch diameter trees down on FM 147 approximately 1 mile north of the city of Marlin, TX.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlin	-	A large tree was blown down east of Marlin.
May 2007	Flash Flood	Marlin	-	Live Oak Road and FM 147 were flooded and barricaded.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Marlin	-	Streets were flooded.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Marlin	-	High water was reported over Highway 46.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Marlin	-	Water was reported over Highway 6 south of Perry.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Marlin	-	Several streets were flooded in town.
April 2006	Hail	Marlin	-	Reported in the Mooreville community.
April 2006	Hail	Marlin	-	Reported in Chilton.
May 2006	Flash Flood	Marlin	-	Flooding reported on Highway 6.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlin	-	Trees down over the northern part of the county.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlin	-	Several tree branches were broken off.
March 2005	Tornado (F0)	Marlin	-	Weak tornado formed and dissipated near Marlin; no damage reported.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlin	-	Large tree limbs broken off.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlin	-	A power line was blown down in Marlin.
June 2004	Flash Flood	Marlin	-	Numerous roads closed or covered with water around Marlin and the rest of the county.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlin	-	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlin	-	Trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm wind.
January 1998	Flash Flood	Marlin	-	Many roads were flooded. Several motorists were stranded in flood waters.
January 1998	Flash Flood	Marlin	-	Several roads were reported flooded across the county.
January 1998	Flash Flood	Marlin	-	Several roads were flooded across the county.
April 1997	Flash Flood	Marlin	-	Several creeks were reported out of their banks.
December 1997	Flash Flood	Marlin	-	Several roads in and around town were reported flooded.
December 1997	Flash Flood	Marlin	-	Numerous roads throughout the county were reported flooded.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlin	-	Trees were blown down by high winds.
May 1994	Hail	Marlin	-	Seventy-five to one hundred trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds. Several buildings were damaged by falling trees.
April 2007	Hail	Marlin	-	no account filed
November 2004	Hail	Marlin	-	no account filed
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlin	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Marlin	-	no account filed
December 2002	Hail	Marlin	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Marlin	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Marlin	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Marlin	-	no account filed
March 1999	Hail	Marlin	-	no account filed
March 1997	Hail	Marlin	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Marlin	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Marlin	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Marlin	-	no account filed
November 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlin	-	no account filed
March 1995	Hail	Marlin	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Marlin	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Marlin	-	no account filed
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Falls 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 00001532 in Record Group 79.
Falls County	All 2 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.