Salem Township Bridge Number E-1

Built in 1940. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Salem Township Bridge E-1 is a historic stone arch bridge over an unnamed stream on 446th Street in rural Turner County, South Dakota, west of Hurley. Built in 1940, it is one of a modest number of bridges surviving in the county that was built with New Deal funding.”
Wikipedia article Salem Township Bridge Number E-1, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Turner County · listed in 2000 · category: Structure · built in 1940.

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. 446th St., Salem, 57036
When was it listed? October 2000
Category. structure
Also known as. Stone Arch Culverts in Turner County, South Dakota MPS
Township. Spring Valley township
When was it built? 1940
National Register reference number. 00001218 - 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

19 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Salem Township Bridge Number E-1 between 1999 and 2019, burning about 510 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
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
19 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	250 acres	Philip Volunteer Fire Department	FORTUNE
6 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Turner County	SMALLSPOT
16 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	REPEAT
29 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
19 April 2008	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
18 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DOUG LARSEN
1 April 2003	Debris and open burning	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Every fire recorded in Turner 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

5 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
Wek Farmstead	4.5 miles	2004
Childstown Township Bridge Number S-15	4.9 miles	2000
South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-016-150	5.1 miles	1999
Spring Valley Township Bridge No. E-31	5.2 miles	1999
Chandler Gray and Mary Abbie Newhall House and Homestead Shack	6.6 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001218 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Turner County	All 29 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.