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_River" class="extiw" title="en:Arkansas River">Arkansas River</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Smith,_Arkansas" class="extiw" title="en:Fort Smith, Arkansas">Fort Smith, Arkansas</a>. The river stage was 36.7 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
1927-04-16
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