James Greer McQuilkin Round Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The James Greer McQuilkin Round Barn is a historic building located near Eagle Center in rural Benton County, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1918 for James Greer McQuilkin.”
Wikipedia article James Greer McQuilkin Round Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 1986 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. McQuilkin, James Greer, Round Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. CR D56, Eagle Center, 52352
When was it listed? June 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Iowa Round Barns: The Sixty Year Experiment TR
National Register reference number. 86001414 - 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

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of James Greer McQuilkin Round Barn between 2007 and 2009, burning about 13 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	5

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
9 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of James Greer McQuilkin Round Barn: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Benton 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.

Listed places nearby

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Upper Stone Schoolhouse	7.9 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001414 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benton County	All 17 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.
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.