Lewis Round Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Lewis Round Barn is located in Mendon, Illinois, in northwestern Adams County. It is one of 14 round barns recognized by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.”
Wikipedia article Lewis Round Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Adams County · listed in 2003 · 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. 2007 E 1250th St., Mendon, 62351
When was it listed? January 2003
Category. building
Township. Mendon township
National Register reference number. 02001750 - 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

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lewis Round Barn in 2015, burning under an acre 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
Smoking	1

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
16 March 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	2015009

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Storms near this property

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mendon, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2019: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Mendon	-	Thunderstorm winds destroyed a couple of smaller sheds on a farm.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Mendon	-	An intense bow echo moved through the area, several large trees and a couple of power lines were blown down just southwest of Mendon.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Mendon	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees along Illinois Route 336 just east of Mendon.
September 2005	Hail	Mendon	-	Storm chasers reported 1 inch hail.
September 2005	Hail	Mendon	-	Storm Chasers reported 1 inch hail in Mendon.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Mendon	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Mendon	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Mendon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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

1 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
	Ursa Town Hall	5.3 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001750 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Adams County	All 26 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.
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.