Floods

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The City of Central Point 1997 New Years Day Flood map notes the location of flooded areas, evacuated homes, and known sandbag protected areas. The city of Central Point designed it for planning purposes only.

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F-24 The file includes flood records for 1861, 1890, 1927, 1948, and 1955. Also included are a "Flood Damage Summary" for 1997, and letters to Jeffery LaLande.

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Research completed for the Director of Planning and Development, City of Ashland. The research covers the five major floods of 1861, 1890, 1927, 1948, and 1955, giving a summary of the damages. The documents include images of newspaper clippings published in 1861, 1890, 1927, 1948, and 1955 from a variety of newspapers. Included is a report from the U.S. Army Engineer District, Portland Corps of Engineers December 1961.

Scope and Contents A collection of government-produced materials, such as reports and informational pamphlets that includes a flood insurance study, tsunami information pamphlets from the Portland Electric Co., NOAA, The US Dept of Commerce, and a leaflet about a seismic warning system. This folder also includes a report of earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest from the 1700s to the present, a National Geophysical Data Center list of tsunamis in the Pacific Northwest since 1854 and a report of the...