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Photograph of Octagon Round Barn, Indian Creek Township
Photograph by cwwycoff1, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Octagon Round Barn, Indian Creek Township

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Octagon Round Barn, Indian Creek Township is a historic building located near Iowa Center in rural Story County, Iowa, United States. It was built in around 1880 as a dairy barn.”

Wikipedia article Octagon Round Barn, Indian Creek Township, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Story 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Off CR S14, Iowa Center, 50201
  • When was it listed? June 1986
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Iowa Round Barns: The Sixty Year Experiment TR
  • Township. Indian Creek township
  • National Register reference number. 86001439 - 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

42 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Octagon Round Barn, Indian Creek Township between 2008 and 2020, burning about 270 acres in total. 2 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Smoking2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
26 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources31766 645 AVE, IA
11 September 2013Naturalunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2013Naturalunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2017Smoking1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesINDIAN CREEK TRAIL, IA
13 July 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources650TH AVE AND 250TH ST. (SECTION #21 NEVADA TOWNSH

Every fire recorded in Story County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Octagon Round Barn, Indian Creek Township: 3 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Boyd PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cook PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
E. Aarthun PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Story County

Storms near this property

27 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iowa Center, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 11 heavy rain, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 4 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2013Flash FloodIowa Center$250,000Several roads were washed out by flash flooding.
May 2014Flash FloodIowa Center$25,000Numerous country gravel roads had water covering them from earlier rainfall of 2.5 to 3 inches.
August 2010Flash FloodIowa Center$25,000Story County Sheriff reports water over the road on County Highway S27 just north of Maxwell, near the Rolling Hills Mobile Home Park.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindIowa Center$10,000Two 3 foot diameter trees were uprooted and blocked the road southwest of Colo.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindIowa Center$10,000no account filed
May 2014Thunderstorm WindIowa Center$5,000Wind gust was estimated. Some hail also fell at the time.
June 2008HailIowa Center$5,000A trained spotter reported hail of mostly penny size, but with a few up to 1.5 inches in diameter about 3 miles south of Nevada at the intersection of Highway F14 and 270th St.
June 2011HailIowa Center$5,000no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindIowa Center$3,000A few large 8 inch diameter and 20 feet long tree limbs down.
May 2010HailIowa Center$3,000Hail falling in clusters with winds estimated at 45 MPH.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindIowa Center$3,000Several 6 inch or larger limbs were snapped off of trees.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindIowa Center$2,000no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindIowa Center$2,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindIowa Center-Gust recorded on personal weather station.
July 2021Heavy RainIowa Center-A 24 hour rain total of 5.50 inches.
July 2021Heavy RainIowa Center-A 24 hour rain total of 4.44 inches.
July 2021Flash FloodIowa Center-Report of water over the road at 305th and 630th with 3 to 4 inches of rainfall in the area.
July 2021Heavy RainIowa Center-Trained spotter reports 5.60 inches of rain since 6 pm local time.
August 2019Heavy RainIowa Center-Public reported heavy rainfall of 3.1 inches. Beginning time estimated from radar.
September 2019Heavy RainIowa Center-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.57 inches over the last 24 hours.
June 2018Heavy RainIowa Center-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.91 inches over the last 24 hours.
June 2018Heavy RainIowa Center-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 3.7 inches.
July 2018Heavy RainIowa Center-Trained spotter reported storm total heavy rainfall of 7.3 inches northwest of Maxwell. Due to database entry limitation, beginning time coded as midnight CST. Actual estimated start time of 545pm CDT June 30th.
July 2018Heavy RainIowa Center-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 7.30 inches over the last 24 hours. Due to database entry limitation, beginning time coded as midnight CST.
July 2015Heavy RainIowa Center-Trained spotter reported 3.5 inches of rain over the last 24 hours.
May 2013Heavy RainIowa Center-Trained spotter reports 3.1 inches of rain fell in an hour and a half ending at 1700 CST. Several reports of roads washed out in the area.
May 2013HailIowa Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Story 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

6 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
William Kennison Wood House3.1 miles1995
East Indian Creek Bridge3.8 miles1998
Briggs Terrace4.8 miles1998
Edwards-Swayze House4.9 miles1978
Calamus Creek Bridge5.8 miles1998
Skunk River Bridge7.4 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86001439 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Story CountyAll 37 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.