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<br />are, by no means, a complete history of such. They are presented <br />here to give some insight as to the source and magnitude of <br />floodwaters from the South Platte River affecting Colorado. <br />Flood of 1844. Floodwaters purportedly covered the <br />bottom lands in Denver vicinity from bluff to bluff. <br />Flood of 1864. Three separate floods caused by heavy <br />rains over snow occurred during May and June on the South Platte <br />River. A resident of Platteville later described the flood of <br />mid-May at that location as the largest flood he had observed <br />prior to 1925. Flooding occurred in late May and again in early <br />to mid-June. The South Platte River flood in Weld County was <br />augmented downstream from Denver by tributary inflow from both <br />the mountain and plains tributaries. <br />Flood of 1876. The flood of late May 1876 resulted from <br />rainfall on snowpack. It was reputed to have been the highest <br />flood since 1864. <br />Flood of 1894. Heavy rainfall over the Front Range of <br />the Rocky Mountains caused flooding on the South Platte River in <br />late May and early June. Floodwaters purportedly covered <br />hundreds of acres in the Brush vicinity. Old timers said the <br />South Platte River was "fully two miles wide". The Fort Morgan <br />Times of 8 June 1894 stated that "for 24 hours on 2 June, the <br />flood touched the caps on the top of the bridge piling". <br />Considerable inflow resulted from such streams as Clear Creek, <br /> <br />3 <br />