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/U.S._Route_51" class="extiw" title="en:U.S. Route 51">U.S. Route 51</a> between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mounds,_Illinois" class="extiw" title="en:Mounds, Illinois">Mounds, Illinois</a>, and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cairo,_Illinois" title="Cairo, Illinois">Cairo, Illinois</a>. River stage at Cairo, 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
1927-03-25
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