Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
From the record
“John McGreer Barn and Crib are a historic building (barn) and structure located in rural Harrison Township, Lee County, Iowa, United States. They are located on a farm northwest of the town of Donnellson.”
Wikipedia article John McGreer Barn and Crib, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 48 National Register listings published here for Lee County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.01000859- 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
15 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 15 fires within 5 miles of John McGreer Barn and Crib
between 2006 and 2014, burning about 58 acres in total. None 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
13
Debris and open burning
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of John McGreer Barn and Crib: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Donnellson, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 22 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
An area newspaper reported that thunderstorms winds blew a semi-tractor trailer onto its side on U.S. Highway 218 south of Donnellson. One person was injured, and transported to a local hospital.
Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding in Donnellson, IA and Fort Madison, IA during the evening of June 21. Water was over several roads in Donnellson. In Fort Madison, the flood waters were 1 to 1.5 feet deep on some main streets in the downtown area. Some streets were impassible. Water flowed into some buildings in the downtown area. A trained spotted also contributed to this report.
Heavy rains caused flash flooding in Donnellson, IA and Fort Madison, IA during the morning of September 13. Street flooding was observed in both towns. The sewer plant in Donnellson was flooded. Sewers in Fort Madison backed up.
After the passage of the thunderstorms caused by the dry line, a secondary area of thunderstorms developed over northern Missouri and tracked across southeast Iowa. They were ahead of the actual cold front associated with the low pressure system mentioned above. The storms produced strong winds. Winds gusted to around 60 mph in a few areas. Several barn doors were ripped off a barn southeast of Bloomfield. Other damage was very minor.
Lightning struck a television antenna topwer outside a home and followed the wires into the home. The roto box exploded ,and two TVs were damaged. Several people in the area later also reported computer and television problems. Witnesses mentioned that storms had ended in the area about 30 minutes before this lightning strike.
The supercell storm that produced this hail developed over Clark County, Missouri and produced a funnel cloud over Fort Madison, Iowa before it moved into west-central Illinois and preceded to produce a large tornado.
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.
Listed places nearby
4 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
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.
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