Levees / Kansas / 3605000092

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Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas. On the Kansas River. USACE records 10,700 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
10,700
USACE figure
Structures
723
in the leveed area
Levee length
5.2
miles, plus 0.27 of floodwall
Leveed area
3.09
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
3605000092
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
11/07/2018
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Kaw Valley Drainage District
Waterway
Kansas River
Segments
1
USACE district
Kansas City
USACE division
Northwestern Division
FEMA region
7
Congressional district
03
Consequence estimate
$3.51 billion
Flood of record
07/27/1993

What this page does not tell you

It does not say whether any particular address is protected. A FEMA accreditation status describes this system measured against a design flood event, and USACE states that the database may not represent the totality of levees in the United States. If you need to know what applies to a specific property, your local floodplain administrator holds that answer. How to read an accreditation status.

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Where it is

Source: USACE National Levee Database, system 3605000092. Refreshed 2026-09-10. Values are reproduced as published. USACE updates the database irregularly and without a change feed, so the refresh date above is the age of what you are reading.