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The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927Highway between Mounds, Illinois, and Cairo Illinois,March 25, 1927 - river stage at Cairo, Illinois., 52.8 feetFrom: The Floods of 1927 in the Mississippi Basin, Frankenfeld, H.C., 1927Monthly Weather Review
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The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927Flooded power plant at Oswego, Ks., on the Neosho RiverApril 23, 1927 - river stage 25.4 feetFrom: The Floods of 1927 in the Mississippi Basin, Frankenfeld, H.C., 1927Monthly Weather Review Supplement No. 29
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The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927The Arkansas River at Fort Smith, ArkansasApril 16, 1927 - river stage at 36.7 feetFrom: The Floods of 1927 in the Mississippi Basin, Frankenfeld, H.C., 1927Monthly Weather Review Supplement No. 29
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The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927Teche Bayou, New Iberia, LouisianaThis was the first recorded experience of this kind at Teche BayouFrom: The Floods of 1927 in the Mississippi Basin, Frankenfeld, H.C., 1927Monthly Weather Review Supplement
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The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927Dynamiting through the levee to create an artificial crevasse at Caernarvon, La14 miles below New OrleansCrevasse created to take pressure off levees at New Orleans
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The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927Arkansas City, Arkansas on April 27, 1927The river stage was at 52.8 feetFrom: The Floods of 1927 in the Mississippi Basin, Frankenfeld, H.C., 1927Monthly Weather Review Supplement No. 29
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The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927Greenville, Mississippi on April 27, 1927The river stage was at 46.8 feetFrom: The Floods of 1927 in the Mississippi Basin, Frankenfeld, H.C., 1927Monthly Weather Review Supplement No. 29
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The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927A refugee camp at Vicksburg, Mississippi, on May 3, 1927This was a nice camp on high groundMany refugees had to live on the levees for months until the water recededMonthly Weather Review Supplement No. 29
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The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927The river front at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, on April 20, 1927The river stage was at 40 feetFrom: The Floods of 1927 in the Mississippi Basin, Frankenfeld, H.C., 1927Monthly Weather Review Supplement No. 29
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The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927A crevasse in the levee at Junior, Louisiana, on April 23, 1927Caused by an out-of-control steamship striking the leveeFrom: The Floods of 1927 in the Mississippi Basin, Frankenfeld, H.C., 1927Monthly Weather
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Flooding at Holman Municipal Airport sometime in the 1940's.
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Signal Service hydrologic unit map from the 1880'sThis map displays various river basins and areas of stream drainage
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A typical scene on the outskirts of Dayton.As seen in: Our National Calamity of Fire, Flood, andTornado by Logan Marshall, 1913. L. T. Myers publisher.These floods caused 527 deaths, the U.S. record for the 20th Century.
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Drowned horses litter the streets of Dayton after the flood receded.As seen in: Our National Calamity of Fire, Flood, andTornado by Logan Marshall, 1913. L. T. Myers publisher.These floods caused 527 deaths, the U.S. record for the 20th Century.
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The incongruity of fire and flood. Flooded streets make it impossible to reachburning buildings. As seen in: Our National Calamity of Fire, Flood, andTornado by Logan Marshall, 1913. L. T. Myers publisher.These floods caused 527 deaths, the U.S. r
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Man walking along telephone cables after escaping from house which was washedaway. Houses in the center have been washed from foundations and are floatingaway. As seen in: Our National Calamity of Fire, Flood, andTornado by Logan Marshall, 1913. L
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Improvised row boats built by National Cash Register Company were of great valuein rescuing marooned residents of Dayton. As seen in: Our National Calamity of Fire, Flood, andTornado by Logan Marshall, 1913. L. T. Myers publisher.These floods caused
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Part of the residential section of Fremont, Ohio, flooded. Water reached to 2ndstory of the houses. As seen in: Our National Calamity of Fire, Flood, andTornado by Logan Marshall, 1913. L. T. Myers publisher.These floods caused 527 deaths, the U.S.
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Improvised row boats built by National Cash Register Company were of great valuein rescuing marooned residents of Dayton. As seen in: Our National Calamity of Fire, Flood, andTornado by Logan Marshall, 1913. L. T. Myers publisher.These floods caused
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River Street in Troy, New York. Shows the collar, cuff, and shirt factory ofCluett, Peabody, and Company, then the largest factory of its kind in the world.Thousands of people were left without work because of the flooding on the HudsonRiver. As s
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