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Champoeg, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862; Copper, under Applegate Reservoir; Detroit, inundated by Detroit Lake and relocated; Dorena, flooded by Dorena Reservoir and relocated; Linn City, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862; Orleans, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862; Robinette, under Brownlee Reservoir
The October 1998 Texas Flooding was a flood event that occurred across parts of South Texas and Southeast Texas on the weekend of October 17 and October 18, 1998. The storm that caused it was one of the costliest in the recorded meteorological history of the United States, bringing rainfall of over 20 inches (510 mm) to some parts of Southeast Texas and causing over $ 1.19 billion in damages ...
The second map shows a partition of the counties into 12 regions of Texas, as defined by the Texas comptroller. The table, further below, reports currently listings by county, updated frequently. [a] Regions are defined by the Texas State Comptroller, who has partitioned the state into 12 regions for economic performance reporting, as shown here.
The flood caused the Brazos river to change course. It now entered the Gulf of Mexico at Freeport, Texas. Major flooding brought death and destruction of greater magnitude than previously experienced. The floods of 1913 and again in 1921 were the catalyst that would cause the state of Texas to attempt to tame the Brazos River. [18]
Crews were responding to “10 to 15 high-water rescues” in the eastern Texas city of Kirbyville early Wednesday, the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office said, and flooding damage was reported in ...
In 1998, the Blanco River had peak flooding discharge of 2,970 cubic metres per second (105,000 cu ft/s) from a 1,067 square kilometres (412 sq mi) basin. [ 1 ] Early in the morning on May 24, during the 2015 Texas–Oklahoma floods , the Blanco River experienced catastrophic flooding.
The city picks up around 3 inches of rain on average in January. Disaster declarations were issued in Texas for San Jacinto and Montgomery counties, north of Houston, due to extensive flooding ...
The body of a 4-year-old boy was found after flash floods ripped through a suburb of Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday. Someone called Johnson County Sheriff's Office dispatchers around 2 a.m. and ...