Robinson Run Flood – J Scottdale Valley Flood – Jĭam Failure. In the latter part of June and the early part of July continued heavy rain caused the rivers in southeastern Kansas to be higher than ever known before and to cause much damage.
Arkansas, Kansas, Neosho, Verdigris and Osage Rivers in Southeastern Kansas – June and July 1904 The absolute maximum gage height during this flood was 11.25 feet and the corresponding discharge was 6,270 second-feet. In the early part of June the Belle Fourche and other streams on the northern slope of the Black Hills were in destructive flood attaining on June 6 a gage height of about 10.9 feet and a corresponding discharge of 5,931 second-feet. Belle Fourche and Red Rivers, Spearfish and Whitewood Creeks – June 1904 In May, very heavy rains in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming caused a flood on the Cache la Poudre and Crow Creek which resulted in the loss of considerable property along them. Cache la Poudre River and Crow Creek – May 1904 Wabash River – March 1904 ĭue mainly to rainfall. To the left is an image showing the flooding in Battle Creek. Damages totaled US$1.8 million (1904 dollars). On the east bank of the river, numerous factories went underwater. Over one-half of the population on the west side of the river was inundated. It broke the previous high-water mark by over 60 cm (2.0 ft), and was considered a once in 100 year flood. The Grand River went above bankfull on the night of March 24, rising slowly for the next four days. It was also considered the most destructive flood in Grand Rapids history.
Kalamazoo saw two square miles of flooding during this event. Many dams were either undermined or swept away. In Lansing, it was the worst flood in the previous 135 years of its history. Grand River – March 1904 ĭue mainly to the rapid melting of snow, flooding was more significant along the Grand, Saginaw, Kalamazoo, and River Raisin river basins than the St. Mohawk River – March 1904 įrom March 25 to 31, 1904, there occurred a flood on Mohawk River, in New York State, which, while not the largest and most destructive in the recorded history of this stream, attained a maximum discharge on March 26 of 20.84 cubic feet per second per square mile. Susquehanna River – March 1904 ĭue mainly to ice gorges. This flood filled the entire flood plain, and was not limited, as was the later one, by the reclamation of large tracts of bottom land, nor was the channel below the mouth of the Feather River then filled with mining debris as it is now. The greatest known flood occurred forty-odd years before, In January, 1862 and was due to rainfall, the precipitation in December, 1861 and January, 1962 just prior to it having been 23.62 inches. flooding in Battle Creek – 1904 Sacramento River Flood – February 1904 įrom February 15 to the end of March, 1904 occurred the most destructive flood as far as property was concerned in the recorded history of Sacramento. 220 of Heppner's 1,400 residents died in the flood. The city of Heppner, at the foothills of the Blue Mountains in eastern Oregon, was almost completely destroyed. The third deadliest flash flood in US history, the normally placid Willow Creek burst its banks during an intense rain and hail storm.
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