An Overland Park bomb squad did not find anything “of concern” in a package left outside of the Douglas County Courthouse on Wednesday afternoon, according to County Administrator Craig Weinaug.

A suspicious package, that appears to be an express mail pouch of some type laying in front of a black backpack, was noticed on the east side of the Douglas County Courthouse, causing an evacuation of the courthouse Wed., Jan. 25, 2012.

Douglas County officials meet outside the Douglas County Courthouse after an evacuation Wed., Jan. 25, 2012, of the courthouse and the Law Enforcement Center because of a suspicious package found on the east side of the courthouse. From left are Kay Pesnell, county register of deeds, Steven Miles, county appraiser, county administrator Craig Weinaug and Yvonne Rapp, county deputy treasurer.

“We’ve been given the all-clear,” Weinaug said at 4:50 p.m.

Authorities closed the building for more than two hours, and county commissioners even met in nearby South Park as the explosives team responded to the courthouse, 1100 Mass., which houses the county’s administrative offices.

Douglas County Undersheriff Steve Hornberger said officers at 2:25 p.m. received a report of an unknown and unattended suspicious package in the bushes east of the courthouse and notified both Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical workers and the team from Overland Park. It appeared to be a large white packaging envelope in front of a black backpack, but he said Wednesday evening the package contained “nothing dangerous or explosive in nature.”

“Just to make sure that there was no danger to property or individuals, we took what we believe were appropriate precautions to have it investigated,” Hornberger said.

John Pendleton was inside the courthouse Wednesday afternoon.

“A sheriff’s deputy came door-to-door and requested we leave by an entrance not on the east side of the building,” Pendleton said.

Weinaug said because it was close to 5 p.m., the building did not reopen to the public Wednesday.

Authorities also closed 11th Street between Massachusetts and New Hampshire streets.

The Overland Park team also responded to a call about a suspicious object east of Lawrence Wednesday morning that turned out to be an old piece of a natural gas line, Hornberger said.