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  2. List of flooded towns in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Inundated Underwater Cities; Ashokan Communities This page was last edited on 20 December 2024, at 02:04 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  3. List of ghost towns in Alabama - Wikipedia

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    Former Tennessee River port town, now underwater due to the construction of the Pickwick Landing Dam. The only current remnant of Riverton is a cemetery located along the Rose Trail Rockcastle [3] Davis Creek: Tuscaloosa: St. Stephens [4] Washington: 1789 Historic First territorial capital of Alabama Stanton [4] Chilton: Tooktocaugee: Calhoun ...

  4. List of places on land with elevations below sea level

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    Places where seawater and rainwater is pumped away are included. Fully natural places below sea level require a dry climate; otherwise, rain would exceed evaporation and fill the area. All figures are in meters below mean sea level (as locally defined), arranged by depth, lowest first:

  5. Millions in this country are stranded by flooding. Many blame ...

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    The main hope in this city is that the stranded people will survive long enough for aid to come – or for the floodwaters to recede. CNN’s Esha Mitra contributed reporting from New Delhi.

  6. Lake Burragorang - Wikipedia

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    A number of farming towns (including the town of Burragorang) and coal mines were located in the area. All of these are now underwater. [ 1 ] Construction of Warragamba dam commenced in 1948 and was completed in 1960.

  7. St. Thomas, Nevada - Wikipedia

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    St. Thomas, Nevada is a ghost town in Clark County, Nevada, United States, near where the Muddy River flows into the Colorado River. St. Thomas was purchased by the US Federal Government and abandoned as the waters of Lake Mead submerged the town in the 1930s. However, as the level of Lake Mead dropped in the 2000s, the ruins of the town ...

  8. Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area - Wikipedia

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    Because the project would result in flooding of some of the low-lying land on the western side of the area, the TVA exercised eminent domain, condemning some of the properties and forcing the removal of approximately 800 families from their homes. [4] As a result, entire towns, including Birmingham, Kentucky, were flooded and are now underwater ...

  9. Indianola, Texas - Wikipedia

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    The town was rebuilt, but events were repeated in 1886. The destruction served as an abject lesson for many residents of Galveston, 100 miles up the Texas coast. However, their calls for a seawall to protect that city went unheeded, and Galveston nearly shared Indianola's fate when the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 struck the island.