Kelly Round Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Kelly Round Barn is a historic round barn located near Halcottsville in Delaware County, New York, United States. It was built in 1899 and is a two-story structure with a low conical roof, approximately 90 feet in diameter.”
Wikipedia article Kelly Round Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 1984 · 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.
Address. NY 30, Halcottsville, 12455
When was it listed? September 1984
Category. building
Also known as. Central Plan Dairy Barns of New York TR
Town. Middletown town
National Register reference number. 84003857 - 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.

Fires near this property

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Kelly Round Barn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 77 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Debris and open burning	22
Natural	11
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
26 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	4.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 August 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
14 July 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
8 June 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
4 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

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 Kelly 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
	Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this property

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Halcottsville, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 hail. 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
December 2006	Hail	Halcottsville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1901 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1945 USGS Fleischmanns quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1946 USGS Fleischmanns quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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
Old School Baptist Church of Halcottsville	0.5 miles	1999
Hubbell Family Farm and Kelly's Corners Cemetery	0.7 miles	2001
Maxbilt Theatre	3.1 miles	2014
Walter Stratton House	4.0 miles	2002
Max and Johanna Fleischmann House	4.1 miles	2022
Pakatakan Artists Colony Historic District	4.2 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003857 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delaware County	All 78 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.