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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…

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.

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View of Council Bluffs during the Missouri River flood of 1881

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View of Council Bluffs during the Missouri River flood of 1881

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

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Proposed Missouri River development plan, 1971

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

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

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

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

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Tank farm south of Council Bluffs, flooded by Mosquito Creek

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Broadway, between the North Western and Illinois Central railroad tracks

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North side of Broadway, looking east from 11th Street

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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…

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Flood waters surround grain bins on a farm, April 1960

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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.

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

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