South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-198-181

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-198-181 was a historic bridge in rural Turner County, South Dakota, carrying 460th Avenue across the East Fork Vermillion River south of Davis. Built in 1909, it was a well-preserved example of bridges built for the county by the Iowa Bridge Company.”
Wikipedia article South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-198-181, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Turner County · listed in 1999 · 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. Local Rd. over East Fork of Vermillion R., Davis, 57021
When was it listed? September 1999
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges in South Dakota MPS; Historic Bridges in South Dakota MPS
Township. Turner township
National Register reference number. 99001212 - 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

27 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-198-181 between 1999 and 2020, burning about 202 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	18
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Other causes	1

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
8 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TREETOP
30 July 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Viborg Volunteer Fire Department	LEFTY JORGENSEN
23 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
20 July 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Viborg Volunteer Fire Department	RICHARD OLSON
9 June 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TERRA
4 June 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	STALK
3 June 2003	Other causes	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
31 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GFPGROUND2

Every fire recorded in Turner County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-198-181: 1 producer. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Stewart Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Turner County

Storms near this property

22 since 1995

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2003	Tornado (F2)	Davis	$500,000	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.
July 2005	Hail	Davis	$150,000	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.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Davis	$50,000	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.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Davis	$5,000	Thunderstorms winds removed shingles from a portion of the roof of a house. Property damage costs are a rough estimate.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Davis	$300	Thunderstorm winds damaged large trees.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Davis	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts tore the roof off a house and uprooted a large tree.
June 2024	Flood	Davis	-	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.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Davis	-	South Dakota RWIS station SD519 9 miles east of Davis measured a peak wind gust of 58 mph.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Davis	-	Water remained over 461st Avenue north of Davis.
June 2014	Flood	Davis	-	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.
May 2013	Flood	Davis	-	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.
April 2007	Flood	Davis	-	Heavy rain at the end of March led to minor flooding along the Vermillion River. Some lowlands were flooded but no significant damage was reported.
April 2005	Flash Flood	Davis	-	Runoff from heavy rain caused flooding of low areas and some roads, including Turner County Road 41.
May 2004	Tornado (F0)	Davis	-	A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	Davis	-	A weak tornado tracked across farmland.
July 2023	Hail	Davis	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Davis	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Davis	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Davis	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Davis	-	no account filed
October 2002	Hail	Davis	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Davis	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Turner 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
Turner Township Bridge No. SE-18	2.2 miles	2000
Brough-Martinson House	5.2 miles	1978
South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-197-130	5.2 miles	1999
Dr. Harry S. Graves House	5.2 miles	1978
Farrar House	5.3 miles	1978
Stidworthy-Kemper House	6.2 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001212 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Turner County	All 29 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.
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.