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Title: 1993 Flood
Description: File contains information pertaining to the 1993 Missouri River flood.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Flood Scene
Description: Missouri River and riverfront area; also shows docked riverboat.
Date: 1903
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flood Scene
Description: Missouri River and riverfront area; also shows docked riverboat.
Date: 1903
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1903 Flood, Hannibal Bridge
Description: Postcard of the Hannibal Bridge during the 1903 flood.
Date: 1903
Object Type: Postcard

Title: 1908 Flood, Morris Packing Plant
Description: Postcard of the Morris Packing Plant in the West Bottoms in Kansas City, Kansas, during the 1908 flood.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Postcard

Title: 1908 Flood, 1st Street and Kansas Avenue
Description: Postcard of the 1908 Flood showing 1st Street and Kansas Avenue in Armourdale, Kansas.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Postcard

Title: 1908 Flood, Missouri River near Weston
Description: Postcard of the Missouri River near Weston during the 1908 Flood
Date: 1908-06
Object Type: Postcard

Title: P39 Army Corps of Engineers 1993 Flood Photographs Finding Aid
Description: The Army Corps of Engineers 1993 Flood Photographs collection includes 21 color photographs of the flood that occurred between July 10 and August 25, 1993.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: KC-area Levees Protect, But They Take Lots of Time, Money
Description: Kansas City's eight federal levees are located at Argentine, Armourdale, Birmingham, Central Industrial District, East Bottoms, Fairfax-Jeresey, North Kansas City, and Riverside. The article gives a brief history of levee construction and projects over the years.
Date: 2011-08-29
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Flood Heads This Way
Description: Residents of Parkville, Missouri, piled up sandbags in preparation of flood waters that could surpass the records set in the 1993 flood. Includes a sidebar "Flood Forecast" which has a map and figures of water stages and the forecast for 2011 plus record crest and year for nine cities along the Missouri River.
Date: 2011-06-08
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Corps Promises Changes
Description: "Under pressure from Congress and states, the Army Corps of Engineers said Monday that it will change its approach to operating Missouri River dams with the aim of reducing prospects for future flooding." The corps has come under criticism for placing species restoration and recreation over flood protection. The record flooding of 2011 was caused by "freakish rains and heavy snowmelt in the basin's western reaches" that "filled the river with more water than at any time since record-keeping began."
Date: 2011-11-08
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Flooded River Areas
Description: Aerial view of flooded areas in the aftermath of the 1951 Flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flooded Harlem, Missouri
Description: Identified as Harlem, Missouri during the flood of 1881.
Date: 1881
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flooded River Area
Description: Aerial view of barges and flooding surrounding the Midwest Terminal Warehouse Co., #3 Building during the 1951 Flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: City Market Area and Kansas City Skyline
Description: View across the Missouri River of the City Market area from the north side of the ASB Bridge during high waters from the 1951 Flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 20 Years Later, We Dread the Next Flood
Description: Article focuses upon remembrance of the flood that impacted the Kansas City area during the summer of 1993. Business and property owners in the affected areas are interviewed and discuss both their recollections and fear of future floods. Representatives from the Army Corps of Engineers and other river management agencies are interviewed and discuss past projects aimed at improving flood control in the area and risk factors that may lead to similar flood disasters.
Date: 2013-06-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Flooded Area
Description: Aerial view of the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers in the aftermath of the 1951 Flood; shows Municipal Airport and Swift packing facilities.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: ASB Bridge and City Market Area
Description: View facing south along the side of the ASB Bridge; shows Missouri River, City Market area and part of the Downtown skyline in the aftermath of the 1951 Flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Flooded Missouri River
Description: Looking north across the Missouri River towards Harlem during flood; Blatz Brewery building in foreground.
Date: 1881
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Troubled Times for the Big Muddy
Description: Article on the continuously dropping river bed and water levels of the Missouri River. The system of dikes and reservoirs "that helped keep the Missouri River channel locked in place," and the effects of commercial dredging, drought, and flooding have contributed to the problem by scouring the river bed. River degradation poses challenges to utilities that draw power and drinking water from the river, as well as the structural integrity of bridges and levees and the water and bed levels of connecting tributaries.
Date: 2014-01-21
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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