Franklin County Courthouse and Jail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The Franklin County Courthouse and Jail in Mount Vernon, Texas was built in 1912. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.”
Wikipedia article Franklin County Courthouse and Jail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 2006 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 200 N Kaufman St., Mount Vernon, 79356
When was it listed? January 2006
Category. building
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 05001542 - 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.

Storms near this property

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Vernon, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Mount Vernon	$2,000	Power lines were blown down by high winds.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Mount Vernon	$2,000	Tree limbs and power lines were blown down by high winds.
May 1995	Hail	Mount Vernon	-	no account filed
March 1995	Hail	Mount Vernon	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Mount Vernon	-	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Mount Vernon	-	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Mount Vernon	-	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Mount Vernon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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 05001542 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin 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.
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.