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Photograph of Utter-Gerig Round Barn
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Utter-Gerig Round Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Fulton County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Utter--Gerig Round Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Near jct. of Co. Rds. 825 E. and 100 N., Akron, 46975
  • When was it listed? December 1990
  • Category. building
  • Township. Henry township
  • National Register reference number. 90001927 - 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Utter-Gerig Round Barn: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Van Duyne PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this property

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Akron, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1995Thunderstorm WindAkron$10,000A tornado flipped over four mobile office homes south of Rochester. Two men were injured when a tree fell on their car and another man was injured when a limb flew through the window of his home. Trees were blown down at Akron. Some trees were down on cars.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindAkron$1,000A tree down. Time estimated from radar.
June 2023HailAkron$1,000no account filed
June 2023HailAkron$1,000no account filed
May 2019Tornado (EF3)Akron-This is a continuation of a tornado that crossed County Road 1600 N between County Roads 100 and 175 East in Miami county and into Fulton County. Tornado continued off to the ENE weakening as it crossed 1600 N and 100 E in Fulton county. Tornado then turned northeastward as it traveled just north of the Miami/Fulton county line causing sporadic damage to several farm buildings. Tornado continued to slowly |weaken in intensity as it crossed SR 114. As the tornado crossed CR 700 W it re-intensified for a time crossing SR 15 south of CR 1400 N with extensive damage to a hog confinement facility west of SR 15 and significant damage to a farm property |east of SR 15. From here the tornado rapidly weakened eastward and lifted near CR 400 W. The maximum intensity of the tornado in Fulton county was EF1.
June 2015FloodAkron-Water was flowing over the road.
October 2014HailAkron-Hail to the size of pennies accumulated around an inch on local roads.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindAkron-County officials reported several trees down.
June 2009HailAkron-Law enforcement officials reported golf ball size hail.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAkron-Trained spotters reported large limbs down in the Akron area.
April 2006HailAkron-Hail increased from the size of quarters up to golf ball size in the town of Akron.
July 2005Funnel CloudAkron-Numerous reports were received of well developed cold air funnel clouds in and around the Akron area as a result of interacting boundaries.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindAkron-Emergency management reported trees down in Akron.
October 2014HailAkron-no account filed
June 2008HailAkron-no account filed
July 2001HailAkron-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindAkron-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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

6 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Prill School1.4 miles1981
Akron Historic District3.9 miles2024
John Haimbaugh Round Barn5.9 miles1993
Rochester Downtown Historic District6.4 miles2008
Lyman M. Brackett House6.6 miles1984
John W. Smith House6.6 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90001927 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fulton CountyAll 9 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.