Dalton Township Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Dalton Township Bridge is a historic bridge over an unnamed stream on 446th Avenue in rural Turner County, South Dakota, north of Marion. Built in 1936, it is one of a modest number of bridges surviving in the county that was built with New Deal funding.”
Wikipedia article Dalton Township Bridge, 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 unnamed stream, Marion, 57043
When was it listed? December 1999
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges in South Dakota MPS; Historic Bridges in South Dakota MPS
Township. Dolton township
National Register reference number. 99001439 - 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

35 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Dalton Township Bridge between 1999 and 2020, burning about 206 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	17
Debris and open burning	10
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Monroe Volunteer Fire Department	RANDY PULLMAN
7 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Monroe Volunteer Fire Department	FRED PLUCKER
29 September 2020	Smoking	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MARILYN KONDA
26 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ARBACH FIRE
26 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	272ND / 444TH
26 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MURRAY WALTNER
23 August 2008	Debris and open burning	35 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
2 August 2008	Smoking	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Every fire recorded in Turner County

Storms near this property

39 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marion, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 25 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
September 1995	Hail	Marion	$400,000	Hail broke windows and otherwise damaged cars and houses. The hail also caused extensive crop damage in the area, with soybeans being the worst hit. Corn was also damaged, although to a lesser extent due to its maturity. The amount of the crop damage was undetermined.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$200,000	Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage, including large trees blown down. Several vehicles were damaged by falling trees or wind blown tree debris, at least two being destroyed.
June 1999	Hail	Marion	$100,000	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$50,000	no account filed
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$15,000	A farm outbuilding was blown over by thunderstorm winds.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds broke windows in a house, tore shingles off the roof, and caused tree damage.
September 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down a wall and blew the roof off of a shed at a lumber yard. The roof hit power lines and knocked out power to much of the town. The winds also caused undetermined damage to corn crops.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$5,000	no account filed
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by a personal weather station.
May 2024	Hail	Marion	-	In addition to the hail up to the size of quarters, there was around one inch of heavy rainfall.
July 2021	Hail	Marion	-	Corn was stripped by large amounts of half-dollar sized hail along 280th Street. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Branches down throughout town.
September 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Six inch diameter branches down in the town of Marion.
June 2017	Hail	Marion	-	Social Media report.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 3 inch diameter branches blown down.
April 2010	Hail	Marion	-	Large hail, along with smaller size hail, covered the ground.
June 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Marion	-	A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
August 2000	Hail	Marion	-	Large hail caused severe crop damage, especially just west of Marion where the hail fell for 15 minutes and covered the ground. Several soybean crops were completely destroyed, and other bean and corn crops were damaged to the extent of producing greatly reduced yields.
April 2026	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
April 2021	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
November 2005	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Marion	-	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

3 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
South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-052-030	1.0 miles	1999
South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-132-040	7.2 miles	1999
Chandler Gray and Mary Abbie Newhall House and Homestead Shack	8.0 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001439 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.
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.