Levees / Tennessee / 4005000007

Ensley Levee System

Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee. On the Mississippi River. USACE records 830 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
830
USACE figure
Structures
219
in the leveed area
Levee length
10.0
miles, plus 0.02 of floodwall
Leveed area
10.63
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
4005000007
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
03/23/2016
Rehabilitation programme
NA
Responsible sponsor
Memphis and Shelby Cty Port Commission
Waterway
Mississippi River
Segments
1
USACE district
Memphis
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
4
Congressional district
09
Consequence estimate
$8.85 billion
Flood of record
02/07/1937

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 4005000007. 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.