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Photograph of Herman Wood Round Barn
Photograph by Ann Sullivan-Larson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Herman Wood Round Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Herman Wood Round Barn is a historic building located near Iowa Falls in rural Franklin County, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1916 by Herman Wood as a cattle barn.”

Wikipedia article Herman Wood Round Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Franklin 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. Wood, Herman, Round Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. US 65, Iowa Falls, 50126
  • When was it listed? June 1986
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Iowa Round Barns: The Sixty Year Experiment TR
  • Township. Grant township
  • National Register reference number. 86001431 - 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

14 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Herman Wood Round Barn between 2006 and 2011, burning about 137 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/undetermined14

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesI-35 MM 102, IA
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources11908 MM AVENUE, IOWA
23 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

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 Herman Wood Round Barn: 6 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Iowa Falls Tile Co.ClayPast Producer
Riekena QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Harms PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Iowa Falls PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lyman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Slayton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stinson Excavating Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Weldon Sand and Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Franklin 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Maysville Schoolhouse7.9 miles1981

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86001431 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin CountyAll 12 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.