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Downtown Huntington, West Virginia, during the Great Flood of 1937. The Ohio River flood of 1937 took place in late January and February 1937. With damage stretching from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, 385 people died, one million people were left homeless and property losses reached $500 million ($10.2 billion when adjusted for inflation as of September 2022).
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.
The Ohio River at Cairo is 281,500 cu ft/s (7,960 m 3 /s); [1] and the Mississippi River at Thebes, Illinois, which is upstream of the confluence, is 208,200 cu ft/s (5,897 m 3 /s). [66] The Ohio River flow is greater than that of the Mississippi River, so hydrologically the Ohio River is the main stream of the river system.
Heavy rain in Kentucky and southern Indiana caused flooding on the Ohio River and others. Water reached the rooftops at Boston, in Nelson County, and 50,000 houses were affected in Louisville ...
The river crossed the flood stage seven times in the 1990s. Since 2000, the river has crested above flood stage twice - at 54.42 feet on Feb 2, 2020, and at 56.86 feet on March 4, 2021.
A prediction from earlier this week suggested that the river level would crest on Thursday at 48 feet, which is 4 feet below flood stage. The Ohio River level began to rise after a recent stream ...
Ohio River flood of 1945 This page was last edited on 11 January 2023, at 07:57 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
The Ohio River will reach a minor flood stage this weekend, the National Weather Service said.. Data from the weather service's forecast office in Wilmington show the river reached over 48 feet at ...