South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-197-130
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
From the record
“The South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-197-130 is a historic bridge in rural Turner County, South Dakota, carrying 281st Street across the East Fork Vermillion River north of Davis. Built in 1906, it is the oldest surviving bridge built for the county by the Iowa Bridge Company.”
Wikipedia article South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-197-130, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 29 National Register listings published here for Turner County · listed in 1999 · category: Structure.
Also known as. Historic Bridges in South Dakota MPS; Historic Bridges in South Dakota MPS
Township. Middleton township
National Register reference number.99001210- 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
50 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 50 fires within 5 miles of South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-197-130
between 1999 and 2020, burning about 311 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
35
Debris and open burning
9
Smoking
4
Equipment and vehicle use
2
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 federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-197-130: 2 producers.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Davis, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.
A tornado, after crossing into Turner County from Lincoln County, heavily damaged farm buildings, including one farm home demolished, and roof and window damage to at least two other farm homes. The tornado also caused an unknown amount of crop damage.
Large hail fell over an area roughly 7 miles long and 3 miles wide. The hail covered the ground and roads over much of the area, with some of the hail accumulation still visible 10 hours after the hail ended. The hail caused widespread and severe crop damage, affecting over 13 thousand acres of corn, soybean, and alfalfa crops. Crops in several areas were totally wiped out, while other crops were partially damaged. The hail also caused damage to numerous buildings and vehicles, many of them in Centerville. Some of the larger hailstones caused holes in roofs. In addition, siding was damaged, and there were many broken windows.
Thunderstorm wind gusts caused extensive structural damage to a house when the back wall was blown out of a garage. Property damage costs are a rough estimate.
The Vermillion River near Davis rose above flood stage the morning of June 19th, cresting around 6.9 feet above flood stage (17.9 feet) on June 22nd. This crest is in the Major Stage and broke the previous record. The river then fell below flood stage on the morning of June 30th. For a more comprehensive description of flood damage, please see other entries for Turner County.
Repeated heavy rains caused minor to moderate flooding of the Vermillion River, affecting agricultural land and some roads. The river crested at 1.6 feet above flood stage at Davis on June 18th.
Heavy rain caused minor farmland and other lowland flooding of the Vermillion River. The river crested at 2.0 feet above flood stage near Davis on May 28th.
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.
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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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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