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One of 18 National Register listings published here for Beadle County · listed in 1993 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 03-020-008
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Local rd. over unnamed cr., Wessington, 57381
- When was it listed? December 1993
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Historic Bridges in South Dakota MPS; Historic Bridges in South Dakota MPS
- Township. Nance township
- National Register reference number. 93001260 - 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
4 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 03-020-008 between 1998 and 2016, burning about 29 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 July 2006 | Natural | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 30 May 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 14 December 1998 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Wessington Volunteer Fire Department | 370 AVE |
| 16 October 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | WESSINTON |
Storms near this property
47 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wessington, the town this property stands in, in 47 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 32 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2006 | Tornado (F3) | Wessington | 2 hurt, $15,000,000 | A tornado, entering Beadle County from Hand County to the west, destroyed 8 houses, damaged at least 7 other houses, and destroyed or damaged numerous farm buildings. One of the destroyed houses and several destroyed small buildings were on a farmstead 2 miles south of Wessington, and five large high voltage transmission towers were blown down about 3 miles southeast of Wessington. A woman was cut on the neck at one farm southwest of Wolsey where the house and all other buildings were destroyed; the injury was not life threatening. The tornado tossed a car and 2 pickups up to 50 feet at the same farm. Another non life threatening injury occurred southeast of Wolsey, again on a farm where the house and all buildings were destroyed. Several vehicles were destroyed or damaged. The tornado killed 10 head of cattle at one farmstead just south of Wolsey. The tornado snapped off numerous power poles, caused widespread tree damage, and severely damaged a bridge where it crossed U.S. Highway 14. The tornado also caused crop damage, but the amount of crop damage was not known. The tornado dissipated one and a half miles southwest of Huron. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wessington | $100,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a storage building at a business, blew down power lines, destroyed a machine shed on a farm, damaged farm equipment inside the shed, and caused widespread tree damage. The tree damage affected about 15 percent of the trees in the town of Wessington. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Wessington | $3,000 | A car was dented by falling and blowing hail. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wessington | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds destroyed two outbuildings and caused tree damage. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Wessington | - | While mostly small hail fell, some hailstones were up to 2 inches in diameter. Rainfall totaled around one inch. |
| July 2021 | Hail | Wessington | - | Hail was mostly pea size, but there were a few stones up to ping-pong ball size. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Wessington | - | Hail was reported to vary between pea and quarter size. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Wessington | - | Also wind gusts to 60 mph were estimated that caused a few tree branches to be down. |
| July 2016 | Heavy Rain | Wessington | - | Rainfall of 2.10 inches was measured. |
| July 2016 | Heavy Rain | Wessington | - | Rainfall of 3.50 inches was measured. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wessington | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Wessington | - | Large hail covered the ground. Crop damage was suspected, but the amount of crop damage was not known. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wessington | - | Thunderstorm winds damaged trees and outbuildings. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Wessington | - | Heavy rain caused flooding of roads. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Wessington | - | Large hail damaged winter wheat crops in the area. The amount of crop damage was not known. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wessington | - | Thunderstorm winds tipped over calf shelters. The winds also caused tree damage, including several large trees blown down. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Wessington | - | Large hail dented vehicles. The amount of damage was not known. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wessington | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts to 60 mph were accompanied by pea size hail and over 2 inches of rain. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Wessington | - | Large hail was accompanied by winds gusting to near 50 mph. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wessington | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage, resulting in a power outage. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Wessington | - | A barn was destroyed and a hog feeder was damaged. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Wessington | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Wessington | - | 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 93001260 in Record Group 79. |
| Beadle County | All 18 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.