Levees / Kentucky / 3905000001

Bardstown Levee System

Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky. On the Beech Fork. USACE records 6 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
6
USACE figure
Structures
1
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.1
miles, plus 0.06 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.00
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
3905000001
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
NA
Inspection date
02/15/2023
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Bardstown
Waterway
Beech Fork
Segments
1
USACE district
Louisville
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
4
Congressional district
02
Consequence estimate
$2.0 million
Flood of record
Not published

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.

02

Where it is

Source: USACE National Levee Database, system 3905000001. 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.