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  • Collection: Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives

View of Council Bluffs during the Missouri River flood of 1881

View of the Missouri River west of Council Bluffs during the flood of 1881

Proposed Missouri River development plan, 1971

Mosquito Creek in foreground, showing levee break into gasoline tanks farm.

The Poudre in flood, looking west from the Oak Street Bridge, May 21, 1904

Looking East on Broadway from Eleventh Street, Council Bluffs, IA

Railroad switch engine pulling off stuck truck on west side of North Western RR city depot, about 4 p.m.

Tank farm south of Council Bluffs, flooded by Mosquito Creek

Broadway, between the North Western and Illinois Central railroad tracks

North side of Broadway, looking east from 11th Street

If 1952 Flood Happened This Year . . . this chart, prepared by the U.S. Corps of Engineers, shows what would happen at Council Bluffs if the Missouri River flood of April 1952 were to happen today. Because Fort Randall is now impounding water, the…

Flood waters surround grain bins on a farm, April 1960

A Cloud Of Fog . . . rises from the ice jam which has sealed off the mouth of the Boyer River. The jam extends upstream well beyond this bridge, which is near the Leonard Crispin farm.

Flood Waters Make An Island . . . of adjoining farmsteads a mile north of Ashland as overflow water from Salt Creek surrounds the area.

On The Fence Line: Angry overflow waters from the Platte River swirl around fence posts 3 miles east of North Bend, Neb.

A Flood Orphan . . . this Hereford calf peers through the windshield opening in the jeep of its rescuer, Merle Sargent, Pacific Junction farmer. Sargent found the day-old youngster as he patrolled the flood-threatened river levee.

Volunteer Helper . . . E.N. Schrimplen of Glenwood lends a hand in moving appliances from the Herb Lincoln home.

Engulfed In Deep Waters . . . are buildings and a car on a farm occupied by Bertha Smith near Pacific Junction.
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