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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
Make Much Progress on 3 Missouri River Dams
Earth-moving Ceases . . .
First Harnessing of Missouri River . . . in South Dakota was completed this year at Fort Randall Dam. All Missouri River water is now flowing through tubes in main embankment at left. Closure section built this year is at center. - Army Photo
Make Much Progress on 3 Missouri River Dams
Earth-moving Ceases . . .
Invading the Missouri River . . . near Pierre, S.D., is Oahe Dam, now 5 percent complete. Pyramid of earth in upper center is completed 1,500-foot section of dam. Sheet pile cut-off wall shown being driven in trench to right of square embankment…
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…