BlockFrom the record
One of 20 National Register listings published here for Chouteau County · listed in 2012 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Shonkin Creek Bridge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Approx. mi. 21 on Shonkin Rd., Geraldine, 59450
- When was it listed? March 2012
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Montana's Steel Stringer and Steel Girder Bridges MPS
- Census division. Geraldine
- National Register reference number. 12000169 - 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
2 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Shonkin Creek Bridge between 1994 and 2019, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 August 2019 | Natural | 10 acres | Chouteau County | FDH-MTLG19-162 |
| 22 August 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northeastern Land Office | BOWERS |
Storms near this property
38 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Geraldine, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 25 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | $5,000 | Trees and power lines down. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | - | An ambient weather station reported 58 mph wind gust 11 miles NNE of Geraldine. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | - | Wind gust of 54 kts measured. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Geraldine | - | A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Geraldine. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Geraldine | - | A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Geraldine. |
| August 2016 | Hail | Geraldine | - | A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Geraldine 10S. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | - | A tree was uprooted from thunderstorm winds. Nickel size hail was also reported. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Geraldine | - | Hail measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized) was reported in Gerladine, MT. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Geraldine | - | Hail measuring 1.75 inches (golf ball sized) was reported in Geraldine, MT. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Geraldine | - | Quarter sized hail, measuring 1.00 inches, was reported 16 miles E of Geraldine. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Geraldine | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped 1.75 inch diameter hail at Geraldine 14E. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | - | A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Geraldine 1NNE. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 60 mph at Geraldine 18E. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Geraldine | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped .88 inch diameter hail at Geraldine. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Geraldine | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Geraldine 2N. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Geraldine | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Geraldine 2W. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Geraldine | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Geraldine 8NE. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | - | Reported by spotter in Geraldine. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | - | Actual spotter location Geraldine 13 W. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Funnel Cloud | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Geraldine | - | no account filed |
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 12000169 in Record Group 79. |
| Chouteau County | All 20 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.
- 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.