Simonds 10-Sided Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.

From the record

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Sauk County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. S4680 Rocky Point Rd., Greenfield, 53913
When was it listed? April 2020
Category. building
Also known as. Wisconsin Centric Barns MPS
Town. Greenfield town
National Register reference number. 100005183 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Simonds 10-Sided Barn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 140 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 8 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
Debris and open burning	53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	2
Fireworks	1

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
30 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	COUNTY ROAD U FIRE
3 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	GALL FENCED-IN BARREL
3 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	WHITE PINE
29 September 1997	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Sauk County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Simonds 10-Sided Barn: 5 past producers, 5 producers, 3 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Silica. 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	Recorded
Baraboo Operation	Silica	Unknown
Cahoon Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1915, 1916, 1925
Cahoon Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1915, 1916
Achterberg Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Baraboo Quartzite Company, Inc.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Spencer Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Brown Pit # 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Farm Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Farms Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Goerks Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sauk 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
Man Mound	1.4 miles	2016
Man Mound	1.5 miles	1978
A.G. Tuttle Estate	2.0 miles	1980
Bear & Deer House	2.2 miles	1969
Walworth D. Porter Duplex Residence	2.2 miles	1996
Seven Gables	2.3 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100005183 in Record Group 79.
Sauk County	All 58 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.