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The Great Flood of 1993 (or Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993) was a flood that occurred in the Midwestern United States, along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and their tributaries, from April to October 1993. The flood is among the most costly and devastating to ever occur in the United States, with 50 dead and US$12 ...
This was one of 92 water gauges to record an all-time record crest during the Great Flood of 1993. 1993 flood 2. A levee in Monroe County,, Illinois, near Columbia, Illinois, gives way to rushing ...
Great Mississippi Flood of 1927; Ohio River flood of 1937; 1954 floods of Northeastern Illinois; Great Flood of 1993; 2007 Midwest flooding; June 2008 Midwest floods; 2011 Mississippi River floods; 2013 Midwestern U.S. floods; July–August 2022 United States floods; July 2023 Chicago Area Flood; July 2023 Western Kentucky floods
Calhoun County is a peninsula nestled between the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers, which both saw record flooding during 1993. The Great Flood of 1993, the name it is now known as, impacted several villages in Calhoun and completely destroyed the village of East Hardin which once sat across the Joe Page Bridge when the Nutwood levee broke in ...
The “Great Flood” of St. Louis in 1993 is considered “the most costly and devastating flood to ravage the U.S. in modern history,” according to the NWS. The flood occurred from May to ...
Prairie du Rocher was one of the few towns along the Mississippi River that escaped being flooded in the Great Flood of 1993. After levees broke to the north near the towns of Columbia and Valmeyer, Illinois, flood waters engulfed Fort de Chartres. They also threatened the town of Prairie du Rocher.
Over the course of a three-month period in the summer of 1993, a slow-moving and historic flooding disaster unfolded across the midwestern United States, leaving economic ramifications that would ...
The 1945 flood of the Ohio River was the second-worst in Louisville, Kentucky, history after the one in 1937 and caused the razing of the entire waterfront district of the neighborhood of Portland. Afterwards, flood walls were erected around the city to 3 feet (0.91 m) above the highest level of the '37 flood.