Lavaca County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

“The Lavaca County Courthouse, in Hallettsville, Texas, is a courthouse which was built in 1897. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.”
Wikipedia article Lavaca County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Lavaca County · listed in 1971 · 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. Bounded by LaGrange, 2nd, 3rd, and Main Sts., Hallettsville, 77964
When was it listed? March 1971
Category. building
Census division. Hallettsville
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 71000945 - 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

82 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Lavaca County Courthouse between 2004 and 2011, burning about 229 acres in total. 1 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	47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	1
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
6 September 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HALLETTSVILLE KC PARK
20 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
17 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	DITCH FIRE
15 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Lavaca County

Storms near this property

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hallettsville, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 3 hail, 1 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
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Hallettsville	$50,000	Trees were uprooted by thunderstorm winds in Sweet Home. Power lines and trees were downed in Halletsville.
April 1994	Hail	Hallettsville	$5,000	The Sheriff's Department reported hail slightly larger than one-inch in diameter.
April 1994	Hail	Hallettsville	$5,000	The Sheriff's Department reported golf ball-sized hail at New Kinkler at 1915 CST, with nickle- to quarter-sized hail in Halletsville at 1941 CST.
December 1995	Hail	Hallettsville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lavaca 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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Kahn and Stanzel Building	under 500 feet	2014
Lay-Bozka House	0.3 miles	1971
Church of the Immaculate Conception of Blessed Virgin Mary	3.3 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000945 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lavaca County	All 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.