Levees / Indiana / 2705000016

Fort Wayne, East

Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana. On the Maumee River, St. Joseph River. USACE records 4,623 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
4,623
USACE figure
Structures
2,329
in the leveed area
Levee length
3.6
miles, plus 1.22 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.96
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
2705000016
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
04/19/2022
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Fort Wayne and Allen County
Waterway
Maumee River, St. Joseph River
Segments
1
USACE district
Detroit
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
5
Congressional district
03
Consequence estimate
$300.0 million
Flood of record
03/01/1913

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 2705000016. 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.