maximums during the roughly 110 years before the Morrison Bridge gauge was put in place. The biggest recorded Willamette River flood, the Great Flood of 1861, produced a much larger maximum, , in downtown Portland than that of the 1996 flood. During the Portland Flood of 1894 and the Vanport Flood of 1948, the river reached stages of and , respectively, both higher than the 1996 flood. By comparison, the river reached only about in downtown Portland during the 1996 flood. See also List of rivers of Oregon List of crossings of the Willamette River Willamette Riverkeeper References Works cited Benke, Arthur C., ed., and Cushing, Colbert E., ed.; Stanford, Jack A.; Gregory, Stanley V.; Hauer, Richard F.; Snyder, Eric B. (2005). "Chapter 13: Columbia River Basin" in Rivers of North America. Burlington, Massachusetts: Elsevier Academic Press. . Bright, William (2004). Native American Placenames of the United States. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. . Loy, Willam G.; Allan, Stuart Allan; Buckley, Aileen R.; Meecham, James E. (2001) [1976]. Atlas of Oregon, 2nd ed. Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon Press. . Williams, Travis (2009). The Willamette River Field Guide: 200 Miles of Adventure from the Cascades to the Columbia. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. . External links Willamette Riverkeeper Willamette, course of Course Willamette, course of