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One of 59 National Register listings published here for Pennington County · listed in 1999 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 52-575-383
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Local Rd. over Rapid Cr., Caputa, 57725
- When was it listed? December 1999
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Historic Bridges in South Dakota MPS; Historic Bridges in South Dakota MPS
- Unorganized territory. Rapid City East
- National Register reference number. 99001586 - 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
24 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 52-575-383 between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,529 acres in total. 6 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 | 7 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.5 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HAMMERQUIST RD |
| 1 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 23 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HAY FIELD |
| 1 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | ANTELOPE CREEK |
| 8 August 1992 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Nebraska National Forest | not named |
| 7 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska National Forest | FARMINGDALE DAM |
| 28 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 18 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 28 August 1999 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Nebraska National Forest | LOST HELMET |
| 22 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | FARMINGDALE |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 52-575-383: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phillips Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
25 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caputa, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 13 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind. 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 2011 | Hail | Caputa | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caputa | $100 | Wind gusts estimated at 80 mph bent a flag pole. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caputa | - | SD mesonet recorded wind gust. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caputa | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caputa | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caputa | - | Wind gusts were estimated near 80 mph. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caputa | - | Some tree damage. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Caputa | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Caputa | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Caputa | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caputa | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Caputa | - | no account filed |
| September 2016 | Hail | Caputa | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Caputa | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Caputa | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Caputa | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caputa | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caputa | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Caputa | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caputa | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caputa | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Caputa | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Caputa | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Caputa | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caputa | - | no account filed |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 99001586 in Record Group 79. |
| Pennington County | All 59 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.