Levees / West Virginia / 4905000064

Benwood, WV

Benwood, Marshall County, West Virginia. On the Ohio River. USACE records 351 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemFederally built
People behind it
351
USACE figure
Structures
182
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.3
miles, plus 0.06 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.05
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
4905000064
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
Not published
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Benwood
Waterway
Ohio River
Segments
1
USACE district
Pittsburgh
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
3
Congressional district
02
Consequence estimate
$103.1 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

West Virginia
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Marshall County, WV
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Source: USACE National Levee Database, system 4905000064. 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.