South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 30-257-400
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
From the record
“The South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 30-257-400 is a historic bridge in rural Hand County, South Dakota. It is located 14 miles (23 km) south of Miller and 9.7 miles (15.6 km) east, and carries a local road over Sand Creek.”
Wikipedia article South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 30-257-400, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Hand County · listed in 1993 · category: Structure.
Also known as. Historic Bridges in South Dakota MPS; Historic Bridges in South Dakota MPS
Township. Rose Hill township
National Register reference number.93001293- 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 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 4 fires within 5 miles of South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 30-257-400
between 2002 and 2013, burning about 6 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
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
Debris and open burning
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Miller, the town this property stands in, in 119 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 75 hail, 35 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 3 flash flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
The storm caused an estimated $3 million in crop damage. The damage path was estimated to be about 22 miles long and 4.5 miles wide. Hail was reported in drifts of three to four feet and large trees were blown down. About 70 thousand acres of cropland and pastures were completely destroyed. The hail killed pheasants and ducks and injured cattle. Many windows were broken in homes, holes were punched in mobile homes, damaged occured to contents of homes from hail which entered through windows, and many vehicles were extensively damaged. A man trying to hold a broken window together suffered a cut hand when hail shattered the glass.
Heavy rains of 5 to 7 inches caused flash flooding of streets and roads in and around Miller for several hours. A few homes received some water in them, some sewers backed up, and several roads were closed.
A supercell thunderstorm on its southeast track produced a fourth tornado in Hand county. This tornado touched down west of Miller. The tornado destroyed a large barn and a car was moved nearly 20 feet. Well built structures were heavily damaged and several were pushed slightly off of their foundations. Significant tree damage also occurred.
Ninety mph winds destroyed three barns and a small garage along with severely damaging a creeper feeder and an enclosed trailer. Another building was moved from its foundation and damaged. An empty school bus was rolled several times before it came to rest atop a fence. Also, a window was broken out of the house.
Winds gusting to 80 mph at a farm north of Miller caused a barn to collapse, blew apart a granary, tore the shingles off one side of chicken coop, moved it off of its foundation, and blew the windows out of the top. The high winds also downed a dozen or so big tree limbs.
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.
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.
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