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1889 view of Johnstown, Pennsylvania several months after the Great Flood The Johnstown Flood was the worst flood to hit the U.S. in the 19th century, and to date, the worst to strike Pennsylvania. [ 27 ] 1,600 homes were destroyed, $17 million in property damage levied (approx. $550 million in 2022), and 4 square miles (10 km 2 ) of downtown ...
The Johnstown Flood National Memorial is a unit of the United States National Park Service in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. [2] [3] Established in 1964 [4] through legislation signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, [5] [6] it pays tribute to the thousands of victims of the Johnstown Flood, who were injured or killed on May 31, 1889 when the South Fork Dam ruptured.
The Johnstown Flood Museum is a history museum located in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, dedicated to the Johnstown Flood of 1889. The museum is housed in the former Cambria Public Library, which is part of the Downtown Johnstown Historic District. [1] The Johnstown Flood Museum chronicles the events of the flood through exhibits and media.
A modern view of the South Fork Dam. The large gap overlooked by the two wooden terraces pictured is the breach that caused the Johnstown Flood.. The South Fork Dam was an earthenwork dam forming Lake Conemaugh (formerly Western Reservoir, also known as the Old Reservoir and Three Mile Dam, a misnomer), [1] an artificial body of water near South Fork, Pennsylvania, United States.
Johnstown Flood: United States (Pennsylvania) 1889 2,142 North Sea flood of 1953 storm surge Netherlands, United Kingdom, Belgium: 1953 2,075 [citation needed] 1981 Sichuan, Shanxi flood China: 1981 2,055 [citation needed] 1987 Bangladesh monsoon rain Bangladesh: 1987 several thousands [citation needed] North Sea flood, storm surge Holy Roman ...
Due to its hillside location, Minersville survived the 1889 Johnstown Flood. [7] This district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. [1] That same year, the district was selected as a training site for undergraduate researchers by the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. [8]
The 1889 Johnstown Flood was caused by the failure of the South Fork Dam, part of the Main Line of Public Works. The dam across the Little Conemaugh River in the hills above Johnstown, Pennsylvania, created a two-square-mile (5.2 km 2) reservoir. Dubbed Lake Conemaugh, it supplied water to the Western Division Canal. When canal traffic declined ...
Great Sheffield Flood, Sheffield, England: 31 May 1889: 2200 dam failure Johnstown Flood Johnstown, Pennsylvania, U.S. 11 September 1891: 359 heavy rain Consuegra, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain: 14 June 1903: 247 thunderstorm Heppner Flood of 1903, Oregon, U.S. Second-deadliest flash flood in the United States; killed almost a quarter of the town's ...