FLOOD04656

• County: Statewide
• Community: United States
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Summary of Floods in the United States During 1965
• Date: 1/1/1970
• Prepared For: US Department of the Interior
• Prepared By: Federal, State, and Local Agencies
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Documentation Report

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FLOODS OF 1'965 IN THE UNITED STATES

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FIGURE la.-Accumulated rainfall, 6 mil{$ northwest of eep ,
May 21-22.

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C . d f ed six families
eda.r Creek Lake caused the lake level to nse au or? 50 was
to vacate their resort homes. At Louisville, State Highway ill of
flooded and badly damaged. A railroad washout ~ear: the :he ~:rps
Cedar Creek derailed 12 freight cars. The Omaha Plstrlcrf . svill as
of Engineers estimated damage along Mill creek in OUI e
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Residential _______________________ $1~. ~

Busmess --;----------------------- 3: 400
Tr&n.sI?Ortation -------------------- 1 200
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, Total ---------------------- 26,.600 Mill Creek or
Peak-discharge determinations were not made for either
Cedar Creek.

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SUMMARY OF FLOODS

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[Reported by U.S. Weather Burea.u and Lincoln Telephone Co. Tr., trace]

TABLE H.-Daily precipitation assQciated with floods of May 22 in southeastern
Nebraska

Location

M,y

Precipitation, in inches
Tim-eo!
observation
(hours)

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Smiles northeast ofAshland..__________nn.......n___nn_________. 0700 1.04
Aurora.__..______________.._u____~___________u___._._UH_._._._____ 0700
3 miles southwest of Blue HilLm'u____u_____m________muun__ 0700
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P:~;so~tiifjaSt-of"fieweese:::::::=:::=:=:=:==:::::::::=:::::::::::::-m08oo-------".--

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Hsstlngs___u__u_______.__...._._.__________________hh_._._________ 1700 _____
Lincoln Agronomy Farm_..._.u__uuu_nn_____._.________._______ 0800 . ii-
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6milesnorthwestofWeep1ngWaternh_____._mmmm___h_..:::_ 2400 L17

3.58 1.40
.22 .57
5.90 .49
.35 .81
3.34 .12
2..72 .1.5
2.60__n_u_
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2.85 .48
2.95 1.12
4.10 .77
3.89 1.43
4.55 .87
2.90 3.89
2.62 .45
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6.24 1.18
.84 1.00
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4.78 dHH__

Concurrently with the stonn in the Louisville area, severe stonns
occurred near Blue Hill, Rosemont, Sutton, Geneva, Fainnont, and
other places in the Blue River basin (fig. 14). School Creek inundated
a strip about a block wide through the central part of Sutton; base-
ments in Geneva were flooded for the first time in the memory of local
residents; and the village of Deweese was almost isolated at the crest
of the flood, D.S, Highway 6 at the stream crossing 3 miles west of
Sutton, State Hlghway 74 west of Ayr, and other roads in the area
were overtopped temporarily by runoff from the stonn, Numerous
bridges were washed out. Hundreds of acres of farmland were inun-
dated, and much of the area that was planted to corn had to be reseeded,
The peak discharges and peak stages at three gaging stations on the
Little Blue River were the greatest since those stations were established
(table 12), The peak at the gaging station near Deweese (established
in 1951) has a recurrence interval of 50 years,