Levees / Missouri / 5605150001

Elsberry / King's Lake System

Elsberry, Lincoln County, Missouri. On the MISSISSIPPI RIVER, Mississippi River. USACE records 535 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemFederally built
People behind it
535
USACE figure
Structures
428
in the leveed area
Levee length
28.4
miles
Leveed area
34.52
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5605150001
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
Elsberry Drainage & Levee District , King’s Lake Drainage District
Waterway
MISSISSIPPI RIVER, Mississippi River
Segments
2
USACE district
St. Louis
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
7
Congressional district
06
Consequence estimate
$73.7 million
Flood of record
07/29/1993

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 5605150001. 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.