Levees / Missouri / 4005000026

New Madrid-Sikeston Ridge Levee System

New Madrid, New Madrid County, Missouri. On the Mississippi River. USACE records 3,698 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
3,698
USACE figure
Structures
1,916
in the leveed area
Levee length
12.1
miles
Leveed area
43.36
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
4005000026
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
Not published
Rehabilitation programme
NA
Responsible sponsor
St. Johns Levee and DD, USACE - Memphis District
Waterway
Mississippi River
Segments
1
USACE district
Memphis
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
7
Congressional district
08
Consequence estimate
$361.7 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 4005000026. 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.