Built in 1930. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
From the record
“The Stamford Bridge, also known as Bridge No. 48-102-010, is a historic bridge in rural Mellette County, South Dakota, southeast of Stamford. Built in 1930, it is a three-span Bedstead Pony Truss bridge, carrying a local road over the White River, off County Road Ch 1.”
Wikipedia article Stamford Bridge (Cedar Butte, South Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 2 National Register listings published here for Mellette County · listed in 1993 · category: Structure · built in 1930.
Also known as. Historic Bridges in South Dakota MPS; Historic Bridges in South Dakota MPS
Township. Red Fish township
When was it built? 1930
National Register reference number.93001304- 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
9 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Stamford Bridge
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 494 acres in total. 4 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
Natural
4
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
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
Cedar Butte, the town this property stands in, in 58 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 27 thunderstorm wind, 26 hail, 3 flood, 2 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.
Deputies and spotters reported quarter to baseball sized hail from Corn Creek at the junction of Highways 44 and 63 to Cedar Butte, which damaged automobiles.
Runoff from heavy rain quickly flooded fields and washed gravel off rural roads. The Little White River around the confluence with Cut Meat Creek and Oak Creek rose several feet in an hour.
Minor flooding occurred along the White River. The river gage on the U.S. Highway 83 bridge north of the town on White River crested at 14.7 feet, 0.7 feet above flood stage.
Major flooding occurred along the White River. The river gage on the U.S. Highway 83 bridge north of the town of White River crested at 18.2 feet, or 4.2 feet above flood stage.
Minor flooding occurred along the White River. The river gage on the U.S. Highway 83 bridge north of White River crested at 14.9 feet or 0.9 feet above flood stage. The river was reported to be a half mile wide near Highway 83.
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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