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FLood waters surrounding trees.
Flood Waters . . . from the Nishnabotna River north of Hamburg rolled over thousands of acres of cropland before the waters began to recede Saturday. In the center along the grove of trees is the normal path of the Nishnabotna but the waters…

Council Bluffs, Iowa -- Five hundred Boy Scouts from flood threatened Council Bluffs and surrounding communities worked around the clock as Red Cross messengers and aids. Here a group are shown making tags to identify furniture belonging to Council…


Aerial photograph of flooding north of Council Bluffs

3 photographs of the flooding on Mosquito creek and the Missouri River, 1936.

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Looking west from side of bluff between 10th and 11th Avenue (back of 3rd Street School House). Flood of April 25, 1881.

View of Council Bluffs during the Missouri River flood of 1881

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
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