Germantown Township Bridge S-29

Built in 1942. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Germantown Township Bridge S-29 is a historic stone arch bridge over an unnamed stream on 278th Street in rural Turner County, South Dakota, southwest of Chancellor. Built in 1942, it is one of a modest number of bridges surviving in the county that was built with New Deal funding.”
Wikipedia article Germantown Township Bridge S-29, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Turner County · listed in 2000 · category: Structure · built in 1942.

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. 278th St., Germantown, 57015
When was it listed? October 2000
Category. structure
Also known as. Stone Arch Culverts in Turner County, South Dakota MPS
Township. Germantown township
When was it built? 1942
National Register reference number. 00001219 - 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

40 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Germantown Township Bridge S-29 between 1999 and 2020, burning about 150 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	21
Debris and open burning	13
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
16 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TRANSFORMER1
31 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ROUNDBALE
17 August 1999	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Parker Volunteer Fire Department	FREEZE
7 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SSBALE
25 July 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Parker Volunteer Fire Department	FEED LOT
16 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GIRLY DITCH FIRE
16 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HIGWAY GRASS FIRE
1 June 2002	Natural	7.0 acres	Chancellor Volunteer Fire Department	KRUMMINGA

Every fire recorded in Turner 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 Germantown Township Bridge S-29: 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
	Neeman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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

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
South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-197-130	2.9 miles	1999
South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-160-056	4.9 miles	1999
Bridge No. 63-137-090-Parker	6.2 miles	1999
Farrar House	6.6 miles	1978
Dr. Harry S. Graves House	6.7 miles	1978
Brough-Martinson House	6.7 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001219 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.
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.