Great Flood of 1993
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The Great Flood of 1993 was a flood that occurred in the Midwestern United States, along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and their tributaries, from April to October 1993.
Flood waters inundated parts of Jefferson City, Missouri, and limited access to the Missouri State Capitol during the Great Flood of 1993.
View of St. Louis riverfront during the Great Flood
Mississippi River out of its banks in Festus, Missouri. The spot where this photo was taken is nearly 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west and 30 feet (9.1 m) above the river.
Water encroaching on the city of Alton, Illinois
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States, with 27,000 square miles inundated in depths of up to 30 feet over the course of several m
Great Flood of 1993
…700 km) in width. Within this zone, the flooded area totaled around 30,000 square miles (78,000 km2) and was the worst such U.S. disaster since the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, as measured by duration, area inundated, persons displaced, crop and property damage, and number of record river levels. In some categories, the 1993…
An aerial view of one of the levee breaches (Mound Landing, Mississippi, breached 21 April)
Submerged farmland
A river levee is blown up in Caernarvon, Louisiana (29 April)
Poultry and livestock sit on a levee just above the water