Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
“The Robert Buckles Barn is a round barn located 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of Mount Pulaski, Illinois, United States. The barn was built in 1917 on the Buckles family farm.”
Wikipedia article Robert Buckles Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Logan County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
The chapter on Mount Pulaski Township in History of Logan County, Illinois : Its Past and Present .., published 1878 names Mount Pulaski. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
DUBOCE M. A. photographic artist; all new styles of pictures taken in the best manner, from card to life size; special instrument for groups and children; stereoscopic views and large views' taken to order; Mount Pulaski, Illinois
Passage source: History of Logan County, Illinois : Its Past and Present .., published 1878.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Mount Pulaski Township - 12,245 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Robert Buckles Barn between 2009 and 2010, burning about 32 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | JOHNSON |
| 8 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | SCALESKI |
| 6 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | FRICKE |
| 4 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | DAVIS |
| 17 November 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10368 |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Theodore H. O. Mattfeldt House | 1.7 miles | 1996 |
 | Mount Pulaski Courthouse | 1.8 miles | 1978 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 83000326 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Logan County | All 12 listed properties in this county. |
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