George Obendorf Gothic Arch Truss Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The George Obendorf Gothic Arch Truss Barn is a Gothic-arch barn built in 1915 from a Sears, Roebuck & Co. kit. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”
Wikipedia article George Obendorf Gothic Arch Truss Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Canyon County · listed in 1999 · 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.
Listed as. Obendorf, George, Gothic Arch Truss Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 24047 Batt Corner Rd., Wilder, 83660
When was it listed? October 1999
Category. building
Census division. Parma
National Register reference number. 99001278 - 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of George Obendorf Gothic Arch Truss Barn: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Clay, 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	Recorded
Clay Deposit	Clay	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Snake River Placers	Gold	Past Producer	Placer

Every working recorded in Canyon County

Storms near this property

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilder, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilder	$30,000	no account filed
June 2023	Flood	Wilder	-	Minor flooding was reported on Highway US-95 from Mile Post 0-35.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilder	-	A trained spotter just west of Wilder reported large tree branches down due to thunderstorm outflow winds.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilder	-	A trained spotter reported 4 inch tree branches down on numerous trees from thunderstorm gusts. Lightning struck a fence post causing the post to catch on fire.

Every storm recorded in Canyon 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
Peckham Barn	2.6 miles	1982
Roswell Grade School	2.7 miles	1982
Ellen Houlder Farm	4.1 miles	1994
A. H. Stewart House	4.7 miles	1979
Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Church	4.7 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001278 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Canyon County	All 44 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.