V - Missouri Department of Natural Resources
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discharge in excess <strong>of</strong> the SO-year flood (fig. 16), and the 2S-year flood was exceeded at the<br />
station on South Fork Blackwater River near Elm.<br />
Comparison \lieh Previous Floods<br />
The floods <strong>of</strong> July 18-23, 1965 in northwestern <strong>Missouri</strong> were outstanding in comparison<br />
vith previous major floods <strong>of</strong> record. The record floods <strong>of</strong> June 1947 in the Platte, Little<br />
Platte, One Hundred and tva, and Fishing River basins were exceeded in the downstream portions<br />
<strong>of</strong> each <strong>of</strong> these basins. The floods <strong>of</strong> July 1951 and September 1961 1n the Blue, Little Blue,<br />
Fishing, Crooked, Wakenda, and Blackwater River basins were exceeded or approached by the<br />
floods <strong>of</strong> 1965.<br />
The July 1965 flood will long be remembered as "The Big Flood" by those local residents<br />
whose houses and crops were damaged or completely destroyed.
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