W. J. Buck Polygonal Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Buck Polygonal Barn was a historical structure located near Diagonal in rural Ringgold County, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1907 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1986.”
Wikipedia article W.J. Buck Polygonal Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Ringgold 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 listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Buck, W. J., Polygonal Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off US 169, Diagonal, 50854
When was it listed? June 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Iowa Round Barns: The Sixty Year Experiment TR
Township. Washington township
National Register reference number. 86001471 - 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.

Storms near this property

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Diagonal, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
April 2024	Tornado (EF2)	Diagonal	$350,000	This tornado developed in rural Ringgold County between Mt. Ayr and Diagonal. The tornado moved northeast with some damage to outbuildings and trees. The tornado crossed Highway 169 southwest of Tingley before moving through the center of town. Up to EF2 damage occurred with Tingley with an upper floor removed from one house and the destruction of some outside walls of a brick building in the downtown area. The tornado impacted a couple more farmsteads with EF0 to EF1 damage before dissipating to the northeast of Tingley.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Diagonal	$100,000	A farm outbuilding was destroyed with debris blown southeast.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Diagonal	$100,000	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Diagonal	$50,000	Partial loss of a roof covering a home and tree damage reported in town. Roofing material was blown southeast.
June 1998	Hail	Diagonal	$25,000	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Diagonal	$5,000	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Diagonal	$5,000	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Diagonal	$3,000	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Diagonal	$500	no account filed
June 2020	Heavy Rain	Diagonal	-	Trained spotter reported 1.15 inches of rain in 15 minutes along with pea to dime sized hail.
May 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Diagonal	-	A brief tornado touchdown occurred.
September 2005	Hail	Diagonal	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Diagonal	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Diagonal	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ringgold 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
	Ringgold County Courthouse	4.9 miles	1981
	Ringgold County Jail	5.0 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001471 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ringgold County	All 6 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.
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.