Photograph of Meridian Highway Bridge — Photograph by Nathan Bergeson ( Natedawg414 ), CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Meridian Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Meridian Highway Bridge is a bridge that formerly carried U.S. Route 81 across the Missouri River between Nebraska and South Dakota.”
Wikipedia article Meridian Highway Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Cedar County · listed in 1993 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. US 81 over the Missouri R., just S of Yankton, SD, South Yankton, 68774
When was it listed? June 1993
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges in Nebraska MPS
Precinct. Precinct 2
National Register reference number. 93000537 - 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

39 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Meridian Bridge between 1999 and 2017, burning about 165 acres in total. None 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	23
Debris and open burning	5
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
2 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WINTER FIRE
5 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MOOSE FIRE
4 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TURMAN FIRE
3 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BINDER RIDGE
24 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	STATE 50 1
22 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BELFAST STREET FIRE
2 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WEST 23 STREET
17 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TRAIL FIRE

Every fire recorded in Cedar 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 Meridian Bridge: 7 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Western Portland Cement Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Bohlmann Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Crosley Sand & Gravel Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Old Allen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sparks Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Cedar 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	St. Boniface Catholic Church Complex	5.2 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000537 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cedar County	All 12 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.