Polygonal Barn, Van Buren Township

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Polygonal Barn, Van Buren Township was a historic building located in Van Buren Township in rural Jackson County, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1920 by Gus Klenney as a sale barn.”
Wikipedia article Polygonal Barn, Van Buren Township, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 77 National Register listings published here for Jackson 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. IA 64, Van Buren, 52069
When was it listed? June 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Iowa Round Barns: The Sixty Year Experiment TR
Township. Van Buren township
National Register reference number. 86001443 - 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

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Polygonal Barn, Van Buren Township between 2003 and 2011, burning about 103 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	7

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
21 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	SE OF ELDORA 2.5 MILES, IA
22 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 October 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	FIELD ON 60TH AVE, N OF WYOMING ABOUT 2 MILES, IOW
1 January 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Polygonal Barn, Van Buren Township: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead. 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	Recorded
Indian Mines	Lead	Past Producer	Galena
Unknown	Lead	Past Producer
Marvin Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Miles Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Preston Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this property

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Van Buren, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 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
June 2024	Tornado (EF1)	Van Buren	-	An EF1 tornado developed about 2 miles northeast of Spragueville in Jackson County Iowa Tuesday evening. The tornado damaged a barn and trees at a farmstead, then continued south/southwest before hitting another farmstead. The tornado caused significant damage to a large outbuilding, then lifted in crop land. Maximum winds were estimated around 100 mph, and the path width was an estimated 50 yards. The tornado path length was nearly one mile. This was likely a landspout, or non-supercell tornado.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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 86001443 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson County	All 77 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.