Kinney Octagon Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Kinney Octagon Barn was a historic agricultural building located just north of Burr Oak, Iowa, United States. Lorenzo Coffin was a stock breeder and the farm editor of the Fort Dodge Messenger.”
Wikipedia article Kinney Octagon Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Winneshiek 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off US 52, Burr Oak, 52101
When was it listed? November 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Iowa Round Barns: The Sixty Year Experiment TR
Township. Burr Oak township
National Register reference number. 86003191 - 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

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Kinney Octagon Barn between 2003 and 2018, burning about 5 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

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
25 April 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 March 2003	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Winneshiek County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Kinney Octagon Barn: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Rowe Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bentley Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Burr Oak Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Hanson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Sexton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Winneshiek County

Storms near this property

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burr Oak, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 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
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	$25,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	$15,000	no account filed
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	$7,000	High winds damaged a building and knocked down trees and power lines.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	$3,000	Trees were blown down near Burr Oak.
June 1995	Hail	Burr Oak	$1,000	no account filed
September 2024	Hail	Burr Oak	-	The public reported nickel sized hail 2 miles southeast of Burr Oak.
July 2012	Heavy Rain	Burr Oak	-	In an hour, 1.75 inches of rain fell in Burr Oak.
June 2007	Hail	Burr Oak	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Burr Oak	-	no account filed
June 2002	Funnel Cloud	Burr Oak	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Burr Oak	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winneshiek 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

4 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
Burr Oak Savings Bank	1.0 miles	2001
Burr Oak House/Masters Hotel	1.0 miles	1983
Upper Bluffton Bridge	5.3 miles	1998
Gilliece Bridge	6.1 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86003191 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Winneshiek County	All 36 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.