Levees / Indiana / 3905100002

Howell Unit 1 Northeast Levee System

Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. On the Ohio River. USACE records 647 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
647
USACE figure
Structures
179
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.2
miles
Leveed area
0.08
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
3905100002
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
06/18/2024
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Evansville-Vanderburgh Levee Authority District
Waterway
Ohio River
Segments
1
USACE district
Louisville
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
5
Congressional district
08
Consequence estimate
$172.5 million
Flood of record
03/15/1964

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 3905100002. 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.