Beaver Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Custer County · listed in 1984 · category: Structure.

Sources: 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. Wind Cave National Park, SD 87, .5 mi N of 385, Hot Springs, 57747
When was it listed? August 1984
Category. structure
Also known as. Wind Cave National Park MPS (AD); Wind Cave National Park MPS
Unorganized territory. West Custer
National Register reference number. 84003254 - 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

126 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Beaver Creek Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24,568 acres in total. 88 started naturally. 1 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
Natural	88
Debris and open burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
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
8 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BAKER GATE
8 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TWIN PEAKS
5 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Wind Cave National Park	WIND RIDGE
5 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SANSON 2
5 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Wind Cave National Park	KEYHOLE
4 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Wind Cave National Park	MIXUP
4 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Wind Cave National Park	BEAVER CREEK
29 September 2008	Debris and open burning	93 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Every fire recorded in Custer County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 58 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 58 workings within 5 miles of Beaver Creek Bridge: 35 past producers, 10 occurrences, 10 prospects, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Mica, Beryllium, Sand and Gravel, Industrial. 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
Black Hills Lime Company Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Dakota Feldspar	Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Beryllium, Mica	Past Producer
Greene Mine	Beryllium, Feldspar	Past Producer	Beryl
Greene Mine	Feldspar, Lithium, Beryllium, Mica	Past Producer
La Rue Mine	Beryllium, Mica	Past Producer	Beryl, Mica
Sky-High Lode	Mica, Feldspar	Occurrence	Feldspar, Mica
Tanner Property	Beryllium, Tantalum, Feldspar, Mica, Lithium	Past Producer	Beryl, Muscovite, Plagioclase, Spodumene
Tanner Property	Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium), Feldspar, Mica	Past Producer
Apex Claim	Mica, Beryllium	Past Producer	Beryl, Muscovite
Beryl Mica Lode	Feldspar, Mica, Beryllium	Past Producer	1920

Every working recorded in Custer 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

4 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
Pig Tail Bridge	1.2 miles	1995
Wind Cave National Park Administrative and Utility Area Historic District	2.0 miles	1984
Cold Springs Schoolhouse	2.8 miles	1973
Norman B. Streeter Homestead	6.2 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003254 in Record Group 79.
Custer County	All 35 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.