Edwards County Courthouse and Jail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Edwards County Courthouse is located in the center of downtown Rocksprings, Texas. The Courthouse was built by architects Ben Davey and Bruno Schort in the Romanesque Revival Style.”
Wikipedia article Edwards County Courthouse and Jail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Edwards County · listed in 1979 · 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. Public Sq., Rocksprings, 78880
When was it listed? November 1979
Category. building
Census division. Rocksprings North
Architectural style. eclectic architecture
National Register reference number. 79002932 - 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

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Edwards County Courthouse and Jail between 1999 and 2014, burning about 4,306 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	2
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,000 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OAK CREEK FIRE
19 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WHITEN BURG RANCH
13 August 2006	Smoking	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
1 August 2008	Natural	500 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 July 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1,000 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MILLENIUM RANCH
22 July 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	EPPERSON PEAR
3 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	EDGE ROW 2
16 June 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	E.C. FAIR

Every fire recorded in Edwards County

Storms near this property

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rocksprings, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 1996: 9 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
November 1994	Hail	Rocksprings	$5,000	Reported by the sheriff's department.
June 1994	Hail	Rocksprings	-	Public reported being hit by baseball-sized hail.
May 1996	Hail	Rocksprings	-	no account filed
May 1996	Flash Flood	Rocksprings	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Rocksprings	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Rocksprings	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Rocksprings	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Rocksprings	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Rocksprings	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Rocksprings	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Edwards 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 79002932 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Edwards County	All 1 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.