Levees / Missouri / 5605220001

Howard Bend Levee District System

Maryland Heights, St. Louis County, Missouri. On the Missouri River. USACE records 1,483 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemFederally built
People behind it
1,483
USACE figure
Structures
132
in the leveed area
Levee length
6.2
miles, plus 1.91 of floodwall
Leveed area
9.44
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
5605220001
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
12/12/2022
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Howard Bend Levee District
Waterway
Missouri River
Segments
1
USACE district
Kansas City, St. Louis
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
7
Congressional district
01, 02
Consequence estimate
$337.2 million
Flood of record
08/02/1993

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 5605220001. 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.