Round Barn, Pilot Grove Township

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Round Barn, Pilot Grove Township is an historical building located in rural Montgomery County, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1912 as a general purpose barn.”
Wikipedia article Round Barn, Pilot Grove Township, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Montgomery 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. CR H20, Sennett, 51566
When was it listed? June 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Iowa Round Barns: The Sixty Year Experiment TR
Township. Pilot Grove township
National Register reference number. 86001467 - 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

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Round Barn, Pilot Grove Township between 2006 and 2020, burning about 19 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	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
9 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 March 2020	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 March 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 November 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

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, Pilot Grove Township: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Elliott Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Nodaway River Bridge	3.5 miles	1998
Grant Commercial Historic District	5.6 miles	2002
Round Barn, Washington Township	5.9 miles	1986
Sciola Missionary Baptist Church	7.0 miles	1983
William and Amanda J. Ellis Farmstead Historic District	7.3 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001467 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery County	All 19 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.