Levees / Illinois / 5105120001

Fulton FCD

Fulton, Whiteside County, Illinois. On the Mississippi River, Mississippi River/Otter Creek. USACE records 2,615 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
2,615
USACE figure
Structures
1,488
in the leveed area
Levee length
10.5
miles, plus 0.05 of floodwall
Leveed area
16.99
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5105120001
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
11/20/2017
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Fulton, Illinois Department of Transportation, Whiteside County, IL
Waterway
Mississippi River, Mississippi River/Otter Creek
Segments
3
USACE district
Rock Island
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
5
Congressional district
17
Consequence estimate
$350.8 million
Flood of record
04/23/2001

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 5105120001. 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.