Round Barn, Buckingham Township

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Round Barn, Buckingham Township is an historic building located north of Traer in Tama County, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1920 as a general purpose barn.”
Wikipedia article Round Barn, Buckingham Township, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Tama 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 US 63, Buckingham, 50675
When was it listed? June 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Iowa Round Barns: The Sixty Year Experiment TR
Township. Buckingham township
National Register reference number. 86001441 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Round Barn, Buckingham Township: 1 past producer. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Tama County

Storms near this property

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buckingham, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2014	Tornado (EF1)	Buckingham	$25,000	Visually striking tornado moved through rural areas of Tama county. Debris was noted, farmstead was damaged, and numerous crops damaged. Track was well captured by satellite overflight.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckingham	$20,000	Iowa DOT reported power lines down along Highway 63 at mile marker 144. Time estimated from radar.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckingham	$20,000	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Buckingham	$10,000	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Buckingham	$5,000	no account filed
April 2017	Hail	Buckingham	$3,000	Emergency manager reported their truck sustained hail damage from hail just under golf ball size just south of the Black Hawk and Tama county lines on S Ave. Time estimated from radar.
May 2001	Tornado (F0)	Buckingham	$1,000	Brief touchdown in open country.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckingham	$1,000	no account filed
July 2024	Hail	Buckingham	-	Relayed through broadcast media, with time of occurrence estimated by radar.
April 2017	Hail	Buckingham	-	Media reported hail up to golf ball in size. Time estimated from radar.

Every storm recorded in Tama 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

2 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
	John W. Young Round Barn	6.2 miles	1986
	Star-Clipper-Canfield Building and Winding Stairway	6.2 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001441 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tama County	All 14 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.
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.