Rebecca Rankin Round Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Rebecca Rankin Round Barn is a historic round barn in the far eastern part of the U.S. state of Indiana. Located along State Road 18 in far northern Jay County, the barn is one of many built throughout the state during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.”
Wikipedia article Rebecca Rankin Round Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Jay 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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Rankin, Rebecca, Round Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. IN 18, 1/4 mi. W of jct. with Co. Rd. 75E, Poling, 47326
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. 93000189 - 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 Rebecca Rankin 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Penn Aggregates Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Jay 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000189 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jay County	All 8 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.