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Prior to the 1913 flood, the Dayton area had suffered major floods nearly every other decade, with major water flows in 1805, 1828, 1847, 1866, and 1898. [6] Most of downtown Dayton was built in the Great Miami River's natural flood plain , which seemed advantageous in the early years when cities depended on rivers for transportation needs.
The death toll from the flood of 1913 places it second to the Johnstown Flood of 1889 as one of the deadliest floods in the United States. The flood remains Ohio's largest weather disaster. In the Midwestern United States, damage estimates exceeded a third of a billion dollars. Damage from the Great Dayton Flood at Dayton, Ohio, exceeded $73 ...
On Easter 1913, the rains began for three days, and Ohio lost 470 people to one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history.
Great Dayton Flood: United States: 1913 360 1958 Buenos Aires flood Argentina: 1958 356+ [6] [15] 1923 Gleno Dam failure Italy: 1923 353 2007 African Nations flood: mainly Sudan, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, and many African country 2007 347 1996 Yemen flood: Yemen: 1996 345
The Great Flood of 1913 severely affected Columbus, Ohio. The area most affected was Franklinton, also known as the Bottoms, for its low elevation near the Scioto River. Among many infrastructure projects, a 7.2-mile floodwall was built from 1993 to 2004 to protect most of Franklinton from flooding.
Pages in category "March 1913 in the United States" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Great Dayton Flood; P. Presidential transition of ...
November 7–11 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 kills more than 250. November 26 – Phi Sigma Sigma, the first non-sectarian sorority, is founded at Hunter College in New York. December 21 – Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World. December 23 – The Federal Reserve is created by Woodrow ...
2.15 1913 Great Dayton Flood and Omaha Easter Sunday Tornado. ... It is a well composed book and written with good documentary accuracy, the author having accessed ...