Levees / Kentucky / 4205000010

Middlesboro, KY - Levee E

Middlesborough, Bell County, Kentucky. On the Yellow Creek Bypass. USACE records 36 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
36
USACE figure
Structures
21
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.5
miles
Leveed area
0.15
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
4205000010
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
06/15/2011
Rehabilitation programme
NA
Responsible sponsor
USACE - Nashville District
Waterway
Yellow Creek Bypass
Segments
1
USACE district
Nashville
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
4
Congressional district
05
Consequence estimate
$1.8 million
Flood of record
03/01/1929

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 4205000010. 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.