Waveland Round Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Ida County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off US 20, Cushing, 51016
When was it listed? June 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Iowa Round Barns: The Sixty Year Experiment TR
Township. Douglas township
National Register reference number. 86001438 - 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

17 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Waveland Round Barn between 2006 and 2020, burning about 269 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
Debris and open burning	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3

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
8 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 May 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 April 2020	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 April 2020	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.5 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	STORY AVE & D15, IOWA
26 March 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Ida County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Waveland Round Barn: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Buck Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Correctionville	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Correctionville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Heming Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Woodbury County Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Ida 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001438 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ida County	All 5 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.