Clay County Courthouse and Jail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 1978 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 100 N. Bridge St., Henrietta, 76365
When was it listed? October 1978
Category. building
Census division. Henrietta
National Register reference number. 78002904 - 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

146 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Clay County Courthouse and Jail between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,100 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 3 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	66
Debris and open burning	21
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Natural	18
Smoking	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
4 September 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HAPGOOD
22 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	U.S. HWY. 287 S. @ BROWN RD. FIRE
2 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	18112
14 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
1 September 2011	Natural	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SPRING STREET
9 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 August 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	US 287 & KLINE RD FIRE
6 August 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PRIDDY RANCH

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Clay County Courthouse and Jail: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Chrisman Ranch-1	Copper	Occurrence	1912
Franklin Ranch-1	Copper	Occurrence	1973
John Preston	Copper	Occurrence	1874

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this property

60 of 152 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Henrietta, the town this property stands in, in 152 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 107 hail, 36 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	$25,000	Severe thunderstorm winds destroyed a mobile home.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	$20,000	An awning at the HISD building ripped loose and tore a hole in the roof. Debris landed on two vehicles in the parking lot.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	$10,000	Local law enforcement reported several trees and power lines down in Henrietta. Monetary damages estimated.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	$10,000	Several power lines were downed. Most of Henrietta was without power as a result. Monetary damages were estimated.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	$10,000	A trailer was blown over by severe thunderstorm winds.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	$10,000	Severe winds knocked a tractor trailer over on Highway 287.
June 2023	Tornado (EF1)	Henrietta	$8,000	Spotters and chasers reported a tornado southeast of Henrietta. This tornado likely developed near New London Road about 2 miles south of US-287. It initially moved southeast, and then east crossing New York Road where a large tree was downed, an outbuilding destroyed and one house received roof damage. Chaser video showed the tornado as a slowly rotating dust column with faster moving subvorticies at times rotating around the primary circulation.
December 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	$7,500	Minor structural damage to a building on Highway 82 was reported.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	$7,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines and rolled a mobile home in a dealer's parking lot.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	$5,000	Several six inch diameter tree limbs and one utility pole down.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	$5,000	A large sign and tree limbs were blown down. Quarter-size hail was also reported at this locations. Monetary damages were estimated.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	$5,000	Two trees were uprooted by severe winds, one of which landed on a car.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	$5,000	Thunderstorm in the western part of north Texas during the evening hours on the 24th produced hail in excess of quarter-size and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds blew shingles off of roofs from 10 to 12 miles east of Henrietta.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	$1,500	An eight to ten foot cottonwood was snapped about half-way up due to strong winds. Monetary damages were estimated.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	$500	Power lines were downed along Highway 287.
March 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	$500	Severe thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph downed large trees and power lines. Roofs were damaged and a small office trailer was blown over.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	$500	Severe thunderstorm winds blew down power lines and numerous tree limbs.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	$500	no account filed
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	$100	Many tree limbs were downed at Lake Arrowhead State Park.
June 1999	Lightning	Henrietta	$10	Lightning struck a large tree at the Clay County Courthouse.
April 2026	Hail	Henrietta	-	The report was relayed through mPING.
April 2025	Hail	Henrietta	-	The report was relayed through mPING.
May 2025	Hail	Henrietta	-	The report was relayed through mPING.
May 2025	Hail	Henrietta	-	The location is approximate.
March 2024	Hail	Henrietta	-	MPing report.
May 2024	Hail	Henrietta	-	Time is radar estimated.
May 2024	Hail	Henrietta	-	MPing report.
May 2017	Hail	Henrietta	-	Hailed for about 30 minutes. Covered the ground to a depth of 12 inches and stripped trees and shrubs of leaves. Hail was nickel to quarter size.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	-	Power poles downed. Time estimated by radar.
June 2016	Flash Flood	Henrietta	-	US 82 was impassable between Henrietta and Ringgold.
June 2016	Flash Flood	Henrietta	-	Farm to market 1197 was impassable north of Henrietta.
June 2016	Flood	Henrietta	-	Numerous roads in Clay county had standing water. FM1197 remained closed north of Henrietta.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	-	Trees snapped and uprooted.
May 2015	Hail	Henrietta	-	Delayed report. Time estimated from radar. No damage reported.
April 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	-	A semi was blown over on Highway 287 near a roadside park.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	-	Minor roof and siding damage was reported to several buildings on the west side of town, with several tree limbs downed as well. A metal garage door was also blown in at an auto parts store. Monetary damages were not available.
April 2009	Hail	Henrietta	-	The hail measured 1 3/8 inches in diameter by an off-duty Storm Prediction Center employee. The exact location was on Highway 82, on the Clay and Montague county borders.
April 2009	Hail	Henrietta	-	Hail from one to two inches in diameter was reported in and around the city of Henrietta.
April 2009	Hail	Henrietta	-	The hail report was relayed via the Spotter Network.
April 2009	Hail	Henrietta	-	The hail report was relayed via the Spotter Network.
April 2009	Hail	Henrietta	-	Hail fell for approximately six minutes. The largest hailstones were from golf-ball to 2.25 inches. The hail reports were relayed via the Spotter Network and amateur radio.
April 2009	Hail	Henrietta	-	Penny- to quarter-size hail was reported.
April 2008	Hail	Henrietta	-	The hail was reported on the south side of town.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Henrietta	-	FM 1197 was closed due to high water. Water from Long Creek was four feet deep over the roadway.
June 2007	Flood	Henrietta	-	HWY 148 was closed due to high water between Henrietta and Petrolia.
March 2006	Hail	Henrietta	-	Hail was reported in downtown Henrietta.
June 2004	Hail	Henrietta	-	Hail was reported at Lake Arrowhead State Park.
April 2002	Hail	Henrietta	-	Hail was reported near Highways 82 and 1134.
June 2002	Hail	Henrietta	-	Hail was reported near the intersection of FM 2847 and Highway 148.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	-	Wind was measured along Highway 148.
August 2000	Wildfire	Henrietta	-	A large grass fire consumed 2250 acres of open pasture, just north of Highway 82. Eighty firefighters from 20 fire departments and 2 helicopters battled the fire which lasted about 6 hours. No structures were damaged, and no one was injured.
July 2000	Tornado (F0)	Henrietta	-	This tornado developed north of Highway 82 in Clay County, or about 7 miles north of Henrietta, and was captured on video. The tornado lasted about 40 seconds, produced no damage, and was rated F0.
May 1997	Hail	Henrietta	-	at the intersection of FM 2393 and FM 1954
February 1994	Hail	Henrietta	-	Thunderstorms in the western part of north Texas during the early morning hours on the 22nd produced hail up to two inches in diameter. Hail up to dime-size covered the ground in Archer City. Larger than golf ball-size hail fell in Westover and was on the ground for over two hours.
May 1994	Hail	Henrietta	-	Thunderstorms in the western part of North Texas during the evening hours on the 25th produced one tornado, hail up to two inches in diameter and damaging winds. A tornado touched down two miles north of Quanah at 1815 CST. The F0 tornado occurred in an open field and no damage was reported. Thunderstorm winds estimated at 100 mph in combination with two inch diameter hail destroyed a 20 x 20 foot storage building, damaged a satellite dish and several homes, broke windows, downed fences and telephone poles, stripped bark from trees and destroyed the cotton and watermelon crops 4.5 miles north-northeast of Quanah. Thunderstorm winds damaged roofs and knocked down trees and transformers in Quanah, tore the roofs off of several barns just east of Quanah, knocked down the front of a store and severely damaged the roof, downed numerous trees and tree limbs and damaged railroad crossing gates in Chillicothe, damaged the roof and a door of a doctors clinic in Vernon and downed tree limbs in Benjamin and Odell.
July 1994	Hail	Henrietta	-	Thunderstorms in the western part of north Texas during the evening hours of the 7th produced hail up to nickel-size and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds uprooted trees and broke off tree limbs in Byers and damaged a mobile home just east of Byers.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	-	Thunderstorms in the western part of north Texas during the evening hours of the 7th produced hail up to nickel-size and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds uprooted trees and broke off tree limbs in Byers and damaged a mobile home just east of Byers.
July 1994	Hail	Henrietta	-	Thunderstorms in the western part of north Texas during the evening hours of the 7th produced hail up to nickel-size and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds uprooted trees and broke off tree limbs in Byers and damaged a mobile home just east of Byers.
July 1994	Hail	Henrietta	-	Thunderstorms in the western part of north Texas during the evening hours of the 7th produced hail up to nickel-size and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds uprooted trees and broke off tree limbs in Byers and damaged a mobile home just east of Byers.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Henrietta	-	Thunderstorm in the western part of north Texas during the evening hours on the 24th produced hail in excess of quarter-size and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds blew shingles off of roofs from 10 to 12 miles east of Henrietta.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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 78002904 in Record Group 79.
Clay County	All 3 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.