South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 48-244-204
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
From the record
“The South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 48-244-204 is a bridge over the Little White River just west of White River, South Dakota. At 314 feet (96 m) in length, it is the longest concrete slab bridge in the state.”
Wikipedia article South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 48-244-204, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 2 National Register listings published here for Mellette County · listed in 1993 · category: Structure.
Also known as. Historic Bridges in South Dakota MPS; Historic Bridges in South Dakota MPS
Unorganized territory. Central Mellette
National Register reference number.93001305- 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
141 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 141 fires within 5 miles of South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 48-244-204
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,958 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 6 were 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
Misuse of fire by a minor
43
Debris and open burning
31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
23
Natural
18
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Arson/incendiarism
6
Recreation and ceremony
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Fireworks
4
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
White River, the town this property stands in, in 99 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 52 hail, 39 thunderstorm wind, 5 flood, 3 tornado.
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.
High winds of unknown strength destroyed a new hog barn, moved two more off thier foundations and tore siding off another barn. The building that was destroyed was vacant, and no hogs were injured or killed.
Ice jams, combined with runoff from melting snow, caused moderate flooding along the White River. On March 22, the rising river forced the closure of US Highway 83. About a three-quarter mile stretch of Highway 83 was inundated when water backed up behind an ice jam downstream. On March 23, a record flow of 21,700 cfs was recorded at the site. This location has a period of record about 20 years.
Minor flooding of agricultural land occurred along the White River around the US Highway 83 bridge north of the town of White River. The river crested at 14.82 feet just over flood stage (14 feet) on May 25, with a peak flow around 17,700 cfs.
Minor flooding of agricultural land occurred along the White River around the US Highway 83 bridge north of the town of White River. The river crested just over flood stage (14 feet) at 14.92 feet on May 28, with a peak flow around 18,100 cfs.
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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