Levees / Mississippi / 5905000024

Whittington Aux South MS

Yazoo City, Yazoo County, Mississippi. On the Yazoo. USACE records 571 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
571
USACE figure
Structures
370
in the leveed area
Levee length
54.6
miles
Leveed area
162.36
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5905000024
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
07/02/2015
Rehabilitation programme
NA
Responsible sponsor
USACE - Vicksburg District
Waterway
Yazoo
Segments
1
USACE district
Vicksburg
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
4
Congressional district
02
Consequence estimate
$162.6 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 5905000024. 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.