Levees / North Dakota / 5705000028

Sheyenne River - West Fargo

West Fargo, Cass County, North Dakota. On the Sheyenne River, Sheyenne Diversion. USACE records 21,783 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
21,783
USACE figure
Structures
5,678
in the leveed area
Levee length
12.6
miles
Leveed area
10.02
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5705000028
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
10/16/2012
Rehabilitation programme
NA
Responsible sponsor
South East Cass Water Resource District
Waterway
Sheyenne River, Sheyenne Diversion
Segments
1
USACE district
St. Paul
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
8
Congressional district
00
Consequence estimate
$1.78 billion
Flood of record
04/18/1996

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 5705000028. 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.