Levees / Indiana / 3905000002

Brevoort / Vincennes Levee System

Knox County, Indiana. On the Deshee River, Wabash River, White River, Wabash River. USACE records 16,192 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

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People behind it
16,192
USACE figure
Structures
8,660
in the leveed area
Levee length
38.8
miles, plus 0.82 of floodwall
Leveed area
82.18
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
3905000002
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
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Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
06/16/2021
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Brevoort Levee Conservancy District, City of Vincennes
Waterway
Deshee River, Wabash River, White River, Wabash River
Segments
2
USACE district
Louisville
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
5
Congressional district
08
Consequence estimate
$2.64 billion
Flood of record
03/02/1985

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 3905000002. 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.