Levees / Arkansas / 3705000062

Newport Levee District

Newport, Jackson County, Arkansas. On the White River. USACE records 3,548 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
3,548
USACE figure
Structures
1,476
in the leveed area
Levee length
7.6
miles, plus 0.64 of floodwall
Leveed area
3.34
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
3705000062
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
07/22/2020
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Newport Levee District
Waterway
White River
Segments
1
USACE district
Little Rock
USACE division
Southwestern Division
FEMA region
6
Congressional district
01
Consequence estimate
$568.3 million
Flood of record
04/17/1945

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 3705000062. 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.