William Hill Polygonal Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“William Hill Polygonal Barn, also known as the Hill-Mershon Barn, is an eight-sided barn located at Bloomingdale, Indiana. It was built about 1905, and is a two-story, octagonal frame building.”
Wikipedia article William Hill Polygonal Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Parke County · listed in 1993 · 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. Hill, William, Polygonal Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. School St., Bloomingdale, 47832
When was it listed? April 1993
Category. building
Also known as. Round and Polygonal Barns of Indiana MPS
Township. Penn township
National Register reference number. 93000186 - 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 William Hill Polygonal Barn: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Dee Clay Products Company, Inc.	Clay	Producer
Parke Co. Hwy. Dept.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Parke County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Parke County

Storms near this property

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomingdale, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 2 hail, 1 flash 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
May 2002	Flash Flood	Bloomingdale	$25,000	no account filed
March 2026	Hail	Bloomingdale	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Bloomingdale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Parke 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Catlin Bridge	1.7 miles	1978
Leatherwood Station Bridge	2.5 miles	1978
Joseph Finney House	3.4 miles	2002
William E. and Carolyn Davis House	3.5 miles	2022
Rockville Historic District	3.6 miles	1993
Rockville Chautauqua Pavilion	3.8 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000186 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Parke County	All 47 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.