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Present Dams Would Take 8 Feet Off 52 Flood Crest
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…
Floods - Council Bluffs
North side of Broadway, looking east from 11th Street
Floods - Council Bluffs
Broadway, between the North Western and Illinois Central railroad tracks
Floods - Council Bluffs
Tank farm south of Council Bluffs, flooded by Mosquito Creek
Floods - Council Bluffs
Flooded street, 1943
Floods - Council Bluffs
Railroad switch engine pulling off stuck truck on west side of North Western RR city depot, about 4 p.m.
Floods - Council Bluffs
Looking East on Broadway from Eleventh Street, Council Bluffs, IA
Floods - Council Bluffs
The Poudre in flood, looking west from the Oak Street Bridge, May 21, 1904
Floods - Council Bluffs
Barge on the Missouri River
Floods - Council Bluffs
Mosquito Creek in foreground, showing levee break into gasoline tanks farm.
Floods - Council Bluffs
Proposed Missouri River development plan, 1971
Floods - Council Bluffs
View of the Missouri River west of Council Bluffs during the flood of 1881
Floods - Council Bluffs
View of Council Bluffs during the Missouri River flood of 1881
Floods - Council Bluffs
View of Council Bluffs during the Missouri River flood of 1881
Floods - Council Bluffs
Looking west from side of bluff between 10th and 11th Avenue (back of 3rd Street School House). Flood of April 25, 1881.
Today
Today...there have been additions and deletions. The grocery warehouse has become the Morphy Drug Co. and a parking lot occupies the spot where the other two brick buildings were located. Magarrell and Co., heating contractors, fill the spots used…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Looking up Main Street toward Broadway this was the picture in 1887. Groneweg and Schoentgen were wholesale grocers. other businesses occupied the two buildings immediately north of the grocery warehouse. The wooden building with the horse tied in…
Today
Today...a modern building, remodeled in 1938, has replaced the old brick terminal. The hotel is gone. Diesel trains from eight of the nations leading railroads pull into the unloading sheds where the mail is thrown into automatic converyers[sic]. …
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
This is the Council Bluffs Mail Terminal as it appear in 1887, when it was known as the Union Pacific Transfer. A hotel, one of the finest in the nation, was housed in the three-story brick building. It was patronized largely by railroad workers…
Today
Today...the same residence is owned by Mrs. Mary Loper. The projection in the rear has become a separate building, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Budatz.