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Devastating floods in 1977 and 1984 destroyed the basketball court floors, wood seats, and some wooden bleachers. However, sympathetic and similar replacements were installed. In 1986, the original 275 wooden theater-style seats were replaced with 115 actual theater seats from nearby Williamson High School Theater. When the flood waters reached ...
Williamson is a city in and the county seat of Mingo County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Tug Fork River. [7] The population was 3,042 at the 2020 census. and is the county's largest and most populous city. Williamson is home to Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College.
2016 West Virginia flood; 2022 Appalachian floods; B. Buffalo Creek flood; F. July–August 2022 United States floods; Ohio River flood of 1937; G. Great Flood of 1913
Updated maps from Williamson County show an increase of 6,000 structures in the 100-year flood plains. The last information available was from 1994.
The Buffalo Creek flood was a disaster that occurred on February 26, 1972, when the Pittston Coal Company's coal slurry impoundment dam #3, located on a hillside in Logan County, West Virginia, USA, burst four days after having been declared 'satisfactory' by a federal mine inspector. Out of a population of 5,000 people, 125 were killed, 1,121 ...
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South Williamson is protected by a floodwall, built by the US Army Corps of Engineers in response to a devastating flood along the Tug Fork River in 1977. There have only been two uses of the gates thus far; the first occurred in 2002 during a major flood in the region, and the second in 2003, due to anticipation of the rising river getting higher.
This is an area larger than the entire state of West Virginia. Over June and July, rain was measured in feet from Kansas into Iowa. 25 years later: The Great Flood of 1993 remains worst river ...