Levees / West Virginia / 4905000007

Elkins, WV – Tygart River

Elkins, Randolph County, West Virginia. On the Tygart River. USACE records 5,247 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
5,247
USACE figure
Structures
2,380
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.6
miles, plus 0.09 of floodwall
Leveed area
1.72
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
4905000007
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
07/15/2010
Rehabilitation programme
Inactive
Responsible sponsor
City of Elkins
Waterway
Tygart River
Segments
1
USACE district
Pittsburgh
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
3
Congressional district
02
Consequence estimate
$1.93 billion
Flood of record
11/05/1995

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 4905000007. 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.