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The Ohio River flood of 1937 took place in late January and February 1937. With damage stretching from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, 385 people died, one million people were left homeless and property losses reached $500 million ($10.2 billion when adjusted for inflation as of September 2022).
A bridge was built across the Ohio River in 1932 and in that same decade steps were first taken to develop an airport. As it did elsewhere in the country, the Great Depression of the 1930s was a time of high unemployment and business and banking failure. In 1937 a massive flood covering 500 city blocks proved to be a major crisis. [18]
Leavenworth was laid out in 1818 in a horseshoe shaped bend of the Ohio River, directly under a large bluff called Mt. Eden. The bluff forms part of the Indiana Ridge and faces directly across the river toward Kentucky. "Old Leavenworth" (the original town, now practically abandoned) was almost completely wiped out by the huge 1937 Ohio River ...
The Great Flood of 1913 occurred between March 23 and March 26, after major rivers in the central and eastern United States flooded from runoff and several days of heavy rain. Related deaths and damage in the United States were widespread and extensive. While the exact number is not certain, flood-related deaths in Ohio, Indiana, and eleven ...
Ohio River flood of 1937: United States (Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois) 1937 373 1966 Rio de Janeiro flood, flood and landslide Brazil: 1966 364 Piura, Tumbes, torrential rain, flooding, landslide Peru: 1983 360+ Great Dayton Flood: United States: 1913 360 1958 Buenos Aires flood Argentina: 1958 356+ [6] [15 ...
The flood occurred when an extraordinary amount of rain came down in the Conemaugh Valley in a short period of time. Nearly 12 inches were measured in 10 hours. The National Weather Service later estimated that this amount of rain in that location should happen less than once every 1,000 years.
Between March 23 and March 27, 1913, Indiana and more than a dozen other states experienced major flooding during the Great Flood of 1913; it was Indiana's worst flood disaster up to that time. [ 274 ] [ 275 ] [ 276 ] The weather system that created the unprecedented flooding arrived in Indiana on Sunday, March 23, with a major tornado at Terre ...
January — February 1957. The massive flood of early 1957 in Eastern Kentucky and nearby areas of Appalachia held the record in many spots for decades. Rain fell nearly continuously in the area ...