August Nus Polygonal Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“August Nus Polygonal Barn is a historic building located east of Arlington, Iowa, United States. Built in 1906, this was one of four flat roofed barns that were known to exist in Iowa, and it was the oldest of the four.”
Wikipedia article August Nus Polygonal Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Fayette 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. Nus, August, Polygonal Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. CR C2 W, Arlington, 50606
When was it listed? June 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Iowa Round Barns: The Sixty Year Experiment TR
Township. Fairfield township
National Register reference number. 86001427 - 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

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of August Nus Polygonal Barn between 2006 and 2007, burning about 4 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	2

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
1 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of August Nus Polygonal Barn: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bassett Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Northrup Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this property

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arlington, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 9 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2013	Flash Flood	Arlington	$75,000	Heavy rains caused several small streams that feed the Maquoketa River to go out of their banks south of Arlington. At least three roads were closed due to washouts or water over the road.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Arlington	$32,000	Severe thunderstorm winds caused the roofs of two hog confinement buildings to cave in on a farm on County Road W45 (G Avenue). Media reports indicate several hogs had to later be destroyed due to the extent of their injuries suffered when the building collapsed. Several other farm buildings in the area were also damaged or blown down.
May 2008	Flash Flood	Arlington	$25,000	Water was reported over Highway 150 south of Maynard and sections of Highway 3 in the far south end of Fayette County.
September 2001	Tornado (F1)	Arlington	$25,000	no account filed
September 2018	Flood	Arlington	$10,000	After thunderstorms with locally heavy rain moved across Fayette County, water covered some roads across the county and street flooding occurred in Arlington.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Arlington	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down an outbuilding northwest of Arlington along G Avenue.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Arlington	$10,000	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Arlington	$8,250	Amateur radio operators reported thirteen skylight windows and some vehicles were damaged at the Starmont High School.
July 2010	Flood	Arlington	$5,000	Amateur radio operators reported gravel road shoulders washed out in many spots along State Highway 187. Also, several acres of farm fields were under water but there were no subsequent reports as to whether the crops were damaged.
July 2003	Hail	Arlington	$1,000	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Arlington	$800	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Arlington	$500	Public reported ping pong size hail, which cracked a window on a house.
September 2018	Heavy Rain	Arlington	-	Near Arlington, 5.3 inches of rain fell.
July 2010	Flood	Arlington	-	Main street in the town of Arlington was reported to be impassable due to rising water.
June 2008	Hail	Arlington	-	no account filed
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Arlington	-	no account filed
July 2004	Tornado (F0)	Arlington	-	no account filed
July 2004	Funnel Cloud	Arlington	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Arlington	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Arlington	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Arlington	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Arlington	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Arlington	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
	Hardware Building	5.6 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001427 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fayette County	All 29 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.
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.