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The June Map of the Month from the Fairfield County Auditor's Office showing the 1948 flood. As a result of this flood, the Hunters Run Conservancy District was created in 1952.
Some mentionable floods included the 1907 flood, in which seven people died, and about twenty houses were swept away. [9] Another notable flood took place in 1968 which was labeled "The worst flood in fifty five years". The 1968 flood is also of interest due to the fact that the re-routing of the Hocking River project began in 1969.
Rooster River is a river in Fairfield County, Connecticut that lies on and serves as the border between Bridgeport and Fairfield. [1] It has flooded on numerous occasions and so has its own flood control project. [2] The river is 15.3 square miles in length. [1]
The area was known on colonial maps as the Uncoway or Fairfield River. Ash Creek has served as Fairfield's main harbor since the founding of the town in 1639. [2] [dubious – discuss] The name Ash Creek was given to the body of water after Fairfield Center was burned to the ground by the British during the Revolutionary War.
A flood insurance rate map (FIRM) is an official map of a community within the United States that displays the floodplains, more explicitly special hazard areas and risk premium zones, as delineated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). [1]
On the new maps in Palm Beach County, about 5,000 properties have moved to a high-risk flood zone, also considered a "special flood hazard area," from a low- or medium-risk flood zone.