Levees / Illinois / 5605940001

Len Small Levee System

Olive Branch, Alexander County, Illinois. On the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. USACE records 90 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemFederally built
People behind it
90
USACE figure
Structures
56
in the leveed area
Levee length
17.2
miles
Leveed area
25.92
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5605940001
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
Not published
Rehabilitation programme
Inactive
Responsible sponsor
Len Small Drainage and Levee District
Waterway
Mississippi and Ohio Rivers
Segments
1
USACE district
St. Louis
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
5
Congressional district
12
Consequence estimate
$8.8 million
Flood of record
Not published

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 5605940001. 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.