Round Barn, Bruce Township Section 6

Built in 1914. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Round Barn, Bruce Township Section 6 was located in Bruce Township, Benton County, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1914 as a general purpose barn.”
Wikipedia article Round Barn, Bruce Township Section 6, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1914.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. W of US 218, La Porte, 50651
When was it listed? June 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Iowa Round Barns: The Sixty Year Experiment TR
Township. Bruce township
When was it built? 1914
National Register reference number. 86001416 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Round Barn, Bruce Township Section 6: 6 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Waterloo South Quarry	Iron, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Copper	Past Producer	Barite, Fluorite, Pyrite
Ballheim Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Mullen Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Newton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Newton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Newton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Smith Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Waterloo South	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Waterloo South Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	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
	Round Barn, Bruce Township Section 3	2.3 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001416 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.
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.