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The most recent US Army Corps of Engineers study to characterize the flood patterns of the Red River was released in 1990, when the river last flooded. There are no current plans for another study. [11] The Red River. Shreveport, Louisiana. Although many advances have been made towards flood protection in Louisiana, flooding is inevitable; the ...
Major flood stage at Fargo is 30 feet. Record-setting flooding occurred in the city back in 2009 when waters reached 40.84 feet. Major flooding is a concern all the way along the Mississippi River ...
Cross Bayou is a 38.0-mile-long (61.2 km) [2] river in Texas and Louisiana.It is a tributary of the Red River, part of the Mississippi River watershed.. It rises in southeastern Harrison County, Texas, 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Marshall, and flows east into Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
The Red River is a major river in the Southern United States. [3] It was named for its reddish water color from passing through red-bed country in its watershed. [4] It also is known as the Red River of the South to distinguish it from the Red River of the North, which flows between Minnesota and North Dakota into the Canadian province of Manitoba.
Bayou Pierre is a partially man-made bayou and ancient course of the Red River [1] in Louisiana, United States.It is a tributary of the Red River originating from an ancient bend of the Red River at Coate's Bluff (Wright Island) in Shreveport, LA [2] (now blocked off by a levee to prevent the Red River from flooding into Bayou Pierre) and merging west from the town of Clarence, Louisiana. [3]
Red River. Black River. Little River. Castor Creek; Dugdemona River; Tensas River. Bayou Macon; Ouachita River. Boeuf River. Bayou Bonne Idee; Bayou Lafourche (Boeuf River tributary)
Shreveport sits on a low elevation overlooking the Red River. [53] Western and northern portions of Shreveport have an elevation over 253 feet (77 m) above sea level. [ 54 ] Pine forests, cotton fields , wetlands , and waterways mark the outskirts of the city.
Bailey's Dam was a timber dam on the Red River in Alexandria, Louisiana.It was built in 1864 during the Red River Campaign in the American Civil War.It was planned by Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Bailey to afford passage over the Alexandria rapids for part of Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter's Mississippi River Squadron.