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Considered a 100-year flood, [2] it was the worst flood in recorded history on nearly every major stream and river in coastal Northern California and one of the worst to affect the Willamette River in Oregon. It also affected parts of southwest Washington, Idaho, and Nevada. [1] [3]
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This flooding prompted flood control measures to be built along the Willamette River. [48] This major flood between December 18, 1964, and January 7, 1965, [49] also impacted portions of southwest Washington, Idaho, Nevada, and especially northern California.
The Willamette River (/ w ɪ ˈ l æ m ɪ t / ⓘ wil-AM-it) is a major tributary of the Columbia River, accounting for 12 to 15 percent of the Columbia's flow. The Willamette's main stem is 187 miles (301 km) long, lying entirely in northwestern Oregon in the United States.
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Extremes outside the period of record include flood maximums during the roughly 110 years before the Morrison Bridge gauge was put in place. The biggest recorded Willamette River flood, the Great Flood of 1861, [27] produced a much larger maximum, 635,000 cubic feet per second (18,000 m 3 /s), in downtown Portland than that of the 1996 flood. [28]
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1964 is a documentary film produced by Insignia Films for PBS' American Experience series about political, social, and cultural events in the United States for the calendar year 1964. [1] It is based partly on Jon Margolis' book The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964. [ 2 ]