William Fisher Polygonal Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“William Fisher Polygonal Barn, also known as the Fisher-Dykes Barn, is a historic 10-sided barn located in Sugar Creek Township, Montgomery County, Indiana. It was built in 1914, and is a two-story, balloon frame structure on a concrete foundation.”
Wikipedia article William Fisher Polygonal Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Montgomery 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. Fisher, William, Polygonal Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Co. Rd. 850N just E of jct. with Co. Rd. 800E, Bowers, 47940
When was it listed? April 1993
Category. building
Also known as. Round and Polygonal Barns of Indiana MPS
Township. Sugar Creek township
National Register reference number. 93000188 - 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.

Storms near this property

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bowers, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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
March 2023	Tornado (EF1)	Bowers	$25,000	This squall line tornado began in far northeastern Montgomery County, approximately midway between the communities of Darlington and Colfax, (while, a weaker EF0 tornado was simultaneously spawned about 1.5 miles to the southeast). The tornado first downed trees (uprooted hardwood and snapped pines) in a distinct 0.5-mile long patch along Withe Creek prior to crossing East Bowers Road, consistent with EF1-intensity winds as high as 94 mph. The tornado then continued into Boone and Clinton Counties where it would ultimately reach EF2 intensity.
June 2019	Flood	Bowers	$1,000	A road in this location is impassable due to flooding from heavy rainfall.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Bowers	$500	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees.
March 2017	Hail	Bowers	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
	Darlington Covered Bridge	4.4 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000188 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery County	All 22 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.
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.