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Photograph of W. H. York Round Barn
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

W. H. York Round Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“York Round Barn, also known as Thompson Barn, is a historic round barn located on Country Road 249 (CR-249) a half mile south of Lodi, in Liberty Township, Parke County, Indiana. It was built about 1895, and is a two-level wood-frame structure on a brick foundation.”

Wikipedia article W. H. York Round 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. York, W. H., Round Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Co. Rd. 249, 0.5 mi. S of Lodi, Lodi, 47952
  • When was it listed? September 1993
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Round and Polygonal Barns of Indiana MPS
  • Township. Liberty township
  • National Register reference number. 93000949 - 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

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of W. H. York Round Barn: 5 past producers, 4 producers. 4 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cayuga Shale PitClayProducer
Cayuga Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Conrad Perry Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cronkite PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dickerson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hawkins GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Materials Service PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Silverwood Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Summit Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Parke County

Storms near this property

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lodi, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2008: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2001Thunderstorm WindLodi$100,000no account filed
June 2008Flash FloodLodi$2,500Numerous roads were reported to be flooded by widespread flash flooding across the county.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Bowsher Ford Bridge2.5 miles1978
Mill Creek Bridge3.1 miles1978
Rush Creek Bridge5.3 miles1978
Marshall Bridge5.6 miles1978
West Union Bridge6.9 miles
Jackson Bridge7.5 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93000949 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Parke CountyAll 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.