Old Cochrane Road Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Old Cochrane Road Bridge is a historic bridge in rural Deuel County, South Dakota. It is a small single-span stone arch bridge, located on an old alignment of the road that circles Lake Cochrane.”
Wikipedia article Old Cochrane Road Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Deuel 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. Abandoned local rd. over the inlet to Lake Cochrane, Brandt, 57237
When was it listed? December 1993
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges in South Dakota MPS; Historic Bridges in South Dakota MPS
Township. Norden township
National Register reference number. 93001268 - 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

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Old Cochrane Road Bridge between 2000 and 2018, burning about 109 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	3
Debris and open burning	3

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
15 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 May 2008	Debris and open burning	100 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
12 May 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	EASTMAN FIRE
25 April 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Gary Volunteer Fire Department	FAIRCHILD
31 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BLUE BELL RANCH
8 October 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Gary Volunteer Fire Department	WILLERS

Every fire recorded in Deuel County

Storms near this property

16 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brandt, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
September 2022	Hail	Brandt	-	The hail was estimated to range between dime and quarter in size.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandt	-	Estimated seventy mph winds downed several trees.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandt	-	Calf shelter destroyed by estimated seventy mph winds.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandt	-	Sixty mph winds brought several small branches down in Brandt.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Brandt	-	Very heavy rains caused the flash flooding of many area roads from Clear Lake to Brandt.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandt	-	About half the roof was taken off the butcher shop in Brandt.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandt	-	Large tree branches were broken off along Highway 15.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandt	-	Seventy mph winds took the roof off of a barn and brought down some power lines west of Brandt.
May 2022	Hail	Brandt	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Brandt	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Brandt	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Brandt	-	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandt	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Brandt	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Brandt	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Brandt	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Deuel 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
East Highland Lutheran Church	2.6 miles	2000
South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 20-153-210	4.6 miles	1993
First National Bank	6.5 miles	1977
Odd Fellows Building	6.5 miles	1976
Herrick Barn	6.6 miles	2005
South Dakota School for the Blind	6.9 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001268 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Deuel County	All 10 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.