Dallam County Courthouse

Built in 1923 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Dallam County Courthouse, at Fifth and Denrock Sts. in Dalhart, Texas, is a historic courthouse that was built in 1923. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.”
Wikipedia article Dallam County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Dallam County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1923, Neoclassical architecture.

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. Jct. of Fifth and Denrock Sts., Dalhart, 79022
When was it listed? October 1992
Category. building
Census division. Dalhart
When was it built? 1923
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 92001375 - 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

113 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Dallam County Courthouse between 2006 and 2019, burning about 6,171 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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	36
Equipment and vehicle use	32
Smoking	11
Debris and open burning	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
29 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 1727
24 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RANDY LENZ
23 September 2006	Debris and open burning	125 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
17 September 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
9 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	LAKE @ BOAT DOCK
4 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Dallam County

Storms near this property

60 of 93 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dalhart, the town this property stands in, in 93 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 73 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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
June 1999	Hail	Dalhart	$1,500,000	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Dalhart	$80,000	The high winds blew over a one hundred plus foot radio tower onto a building and fence of the Cow Feed Company in Dalhart. Also damaged was the Junior High School in Dalhart when a one hundred and ten foot communication tower fell on the roof. The high winds took a roof off of a building in Dalhart. Two trees were uprooted and several tree limbs were blown down.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Dalhart	$30,000	Wind damage caused numerous tree limbs down with roof damage and five to six power poles broken off at ground level.
May 2024	Hail	Dalhart	$20,000	Hail up to two inches in diameter fell across Dalhart.
September 2025	Hail	Dalhart	$5,000	Hail fell to the east of Dalhart. The sizes were mostly nickel-sized but there were some hailstones the size of golf balls mixed in as well.
October 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Dalhart	$5,000	Local law enforcement officials estimated the thunderstorm wind gust and also reported that there were several power lines blown down around the city of Dalhart Texas. There were no reports of injuries or fatalities.
April 2026	Hail	Dalhart	$2,000	A thunderstorm moved across Dalhart during the afternoon of April 10, 2026. It produced penny to quarter size hail on the north side of town, including along highway 54.
September 2025	Hail	Dalhart	-	A swath of small hail occurred across portions of Dallam County. Hail covered the ground to the northeast of Dalhart, with stones that ranged from pea to penny size.
July 2021	Flood	Dalhart	-	Street flooding was reported in and around the city of Dalhart. Roads did remain passible.
July 2021	Hail	Dalhart	-	Report received of 1 to 1.5 inch hail falling for around 2 minutes.
July 2021	Hail	Dalhart	-	Storm chaser reported 1-2 inch diameter hail in and around Dalhart to around 5 miles north of town. Some minor accumulating hail was reported on highway 385, about 4 miles north of the city as well.
June 2021	Flash Flood	Dalhart	-	Water reported over curb with a few inches of water covering all the lanes of HWY 87.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Dalhart	-	Delayed report. A few tree limbs down in downtown Dalhart. Time estimated based on KDHT wind observation.
June 2017	Hail	Dalhart	-	Hail covering the roadways at the intersection of FM 1727 and HWY 87 north.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Dalhart	-	A few tree limbs 9 to 16 inches in diameter were blown down.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Dalhart	-	Five power poles down in a row.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Dalhart	-	A significant downburst wind event occurred west and southwest of Dalhart, TX on Sunday evening. The downburst was associated with an RFD of a supercell thunderstorm. Damage from the downburst was initially observed at the Twisted Elms Golf Course were several trees were uprooted and many large branches were downed, including some onto power lines. Damage at the golf course was estimated at 75-85 MPH. The damage continued to the southeast were several power poles were blown down. Severe straight line damaged peaked at the airport where a 74 MPH wind was observed with even some of NWS ASOS equipment was damaged afterwards by flying debris from airport hangers up to half a mile away. Several small planes and a pop-up camper were flipped and thrown up to 50 yards. Damage at the airport was estimated to be from 100 to 110 MPH winds, which is equivalent of a high end EF-1 tornado.
May 2016	Hail	Dalhart	-	Quarter size hail increased to golf ball size at 6th and Keeler in Dalhart.
April 2016	Hail	Dalhart	-	Golf ball size hail was reported one mile north of Dalhart.
April 2016	Hail	Dalhart	-	Hail up to half dollar size fell fell 4 miles east of Dalhart.
April 2016	Hail	Dalhart	-	Golf ball size hail was reported one mile north of Dalhart.
April 2016	Hail	Dalhart	-	Tennis ball size hail was reported one mile west of Dalhart.
April 2016	Hail	Dalhart	-	Hail to the size of half dollars was reported one mile northeast of Dalhart.
September 2016	Hail	Dalhart	-	Hail up to the size of half dollars 3 miles northwest of Dalhart on us 87.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Dalhart	-	Tree limbs 10 inches in diameter were blown down.
June 2015	Hail	Dalhart	-	Hail between one half inch and three quarters of an inch in diameter was reported 4 miles east of Dalhart.
July 2015	Hail	Dalhart	-	Hail up to the size of half dollars fell 4 miles east of Dalhart.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Dalhart	-	An embedded thunderstorm with a line of storms collapsed east of the town of Dalhart (Dallam County). A member of the public reported 4 miles east of Dalhart (Dallam County) estimated a 60 mph downburst. The line of thunderstorms continued moving to the east-southeast after producing this downburst.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Dalhart	-	An embedded thunderstorm with a line of storms collapsed east of the town of Dalhart (Dallam County). A member of the public reported 4 miles east of Dalhart (Dallam County) blew tree limbs between one and three inches of a Chinese Elm down. The line of thunderstorms continued moving to the east-southeast after producing this downburst.
October 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Dalhart	-	Local law enforcement officials estimated the thunderstorm wind gust about one mile north of Dalhart Texas. There were no reports of damages or injuries.
April 2007	Hail	Dalhart	-	Hail was reportedly covering the ground.
May 2007	Hail	Dalhart	-	Reported near Dunn Road and State Highway 102.
June 2006	Tornado (F0)	Dalhart	-	The small tornado was on the ground for less than a minute and remained over open country. No damage and no injuries were reported. The path length and path width were estimated.
June 2004	Flash Flood	Dalhart	-	Six to eight inches of water with some twelve inches over Farm to Market road 1727 west-northwest of Dalhart as Carrizo Creek flooded.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Dalhart	-	Six inch diameter tree limbs were reported down.
June 1997	Tornado (F0)	Dalhart	-	Brief touchdown and tornado remained over open country. Tornado track was estimated.
August 1994	Hail	Dalhart	-	Dime- to golfball-size hail was reported by the Dallam County Sheriff's Office.
May 1993	Hail	Dalhart	-	Thunderstorms moved out of New Mexico and into the Texas panhandle produced hail of which one report was golf ball-size.
May 1993	Hail	Dalhart	-	Thunderstorms moved out of New Mexico and into the Texas panhandle produced hail of which one report was golf ball-size.
May 2024	Hail	Dalhart	-	no account filed
April 2022	Hail	Dalhart	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Dalhart	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Dalhart	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Dalhart	-	no account filed
May 2021	Hail	Dalhart	-	no account filed
August 2018	Hail	Dalhart	-	no account filed
September 2016	Hail	Dalhart	-	no account filed
September 2016	Hail	Dalhart	-	no account filed
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Dalhart	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Dalhart	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Dalhart	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Dalhart	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Dalhart	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Dalhart	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Dalhart	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Dalhart	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Dalhart	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Dalhart	-	no account filed
March 2007	Hail	Dalhart	-	no account filed
March 2007	Hail	Dalhart	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dallam 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 92001375 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dallam 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.