The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mississippi_Flood_of_1927" class="extiw" title="en:Great Mississippi Flood of 1927">Great Mississippi Flood of 1927</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_City,_Arkansas" class="extiw" title="en:Arkansas City, Arkansas">Arkansas City, Arkansas</a>. The river stage was at 52.8 feet. From: "The Floods of 1927 in the Mississippi Basin", Frankenfeld, H.C., 1927 Monthly Weather Review Supplement No. 29.
Archival Photography by Steve Nicklas, NOS, NGS
1927-04-27
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