Webster County is named for Daniel Webster, who was the United States Secretary of State from 1841 to 1843 and from 1850 to 1852.
Surrounding County Courthouses:
N – Union County and Henderson County
E – McLean County
S – Hopkins County
W – Crittenden County and Union County
Created: February 29, 1860 
County Seat:
Dixon 1860 – present
County Courthouse – Dixon
Location: 35 Highway 41A (Main Street) / Highway 132
Built: 1939 – 1941
Style: Art Deco
Architect: Lawrence Casner of Madisonville
Contractor: Russell Petrie
Description: The building faces west and is a three story poured concrete structure. The rectangular shaped building is located on landscaped grounds in the center of Dixon. The building has a raised basement. The west front has four large concrete pillars forming three rectangular arches, with the entrance in the centre of the first story. Above the arches is a clock. Two large Art Deco lamp are on either side of the wide steps. In the interior, the first story has a central hallway running from the entrance to the rear. The floor and half way up the walls are covered with green colored two-tone marble tiles. The second story has the courtroom and the old jail was housed on the third story. The building was a Works Project Administration project.
Note: Works Project Administration provided a grant of $143,000. The courthouse is similar to the courthouse in Caldwell County.
See: The architect, Lawrence Casner of Madisonville, designed the courthouses in Caldwell County and Hopkins County.
See: National Register of Historic Places – Webster County Courthouse
County Judicial Center – Dixon
Location: 37 Highway 41A (Main Street) / Segal Street
Built: 2004 – 2005
Style: Modern
Architect: Michael F Barton
Contractor: Codell Construction Company
Description: The building faces west and is a two story poured concrete structure like the courthouse which is on the north side in the center of Dixon.. At the west front are three large rectangular arches with glass windows. This front section extends from the main building. On the flat roofline is a decorative cornice. The building houses the County Circuit Court and County District Court of the 5th Judicial District.
See: The contractor was Codell Construction Company of Winchester which company constructed many courthouse in Kentucky ( see Louisville ).
See: The 5th Judicial Circuit includes Crittenden County, Union County and Webster County.
History: The county was created in 1860 and Dixon was selected as the county seat. The first courthouse was built in 1861 and was demolished in 1939 when the second and present courthouse was constructed in 1939 to 1941 at a cost of $143,000. The County Judicial Center was constructed in 2004 to 2005 at a cost of $3,500,000.
County Courthouse – Dixon
County Judicial Center – Dixon
Photos taken 2007