Levees / Kentucky / 4205000006

Barbourville, KY

Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky. On the Cumberland River, Richland Creek. USACE records 2,347 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
2,347
USACE figure
Structures
1,088
in the leveed area
Levee length
2.5
miles, plus 1.31 of floodwall
Leveed area
1.06
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
4205000006
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
08/20/2020
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Barbourville, KY
Waterway
Cumberland River, Richland Creek
Segments
1
USACE district
Nashville
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
4
Congressional district
05
Consequence estimate
$385.2 million
Flood of record
01/01/1946

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 4205000006. 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.