1897 Red River flood

Natural disaster in North Dakota, United States May 2025 February 2025 1897 Red River flood Redrivernorthmap.png The Red River drainage basin, with the Red River highlighted April 1 - April 24 The 1897 Red River flood took place in April 1897, along the Red River resulting in significant damage to the city of Fargo, North Dakota. The conditions which led to the flood of 1897 were similar to the conditions behind the 2009 flood, however the 1897 flood was different in terms of the human response to it. Red River Flood Comparable To 1897 Vance Publishing 2009-03-23 https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/news/newsreleases/2009/march-19-2009/red-river-flood-comparable-to-1897/ 1 April 2009 Although the river gauge was not installed on the Red River until 1901, other sources indicate that the crest of the 1897 flood at a site 1.5 mi km downstream from the present Fargo gauge would have been 40.10 ft (with a discharge rate of 25,000 ft3/s) according to the present datum.Red River of the North Flooding - 1897 USGS 2008-03-14 http://nd.water.usgs.gov/photos/1897RedFlood/index.html 1 April 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090331093942/http://nd.water.usgs.gov/photos/1897RedFlood/index.html 31 March 2009 live Until the 2009 flood, the 1897 flood was the highest water recorded in the Fargo-Moorhead area and has since served as the benchmark for which many other floods of the Red River were measured against. Causes In the spring of 1897 R.M. Probesfield took a measurement of 5 ft m of snow on the ground in an area which was free from drifting; a value 2 ft m higher than one taken prior to the 1861 flood. Due to the level of measured snowfall a flood in the spring was expected. River crests City Crest Date Wahpeton, North Dakota 2' 8" above the 1893 high 1897-03-31 Fargo, North Dakota 40.10 ft (present datum)34.2 ft (1952 datum) 1897-04-07 - Early Morning Grand Forks, North Dakota Line along 3rd StreetCovering Demers Ave in East Grand Forks 1897-04-10 - Noon References External links Photographs of Flooding in the Fargo–Moorhead Region: 1897–1996 https://web.archive.org/web/20230220134257/https://www.ndsu.edu/fargo_geology/fldphotos1897-1996.htm February 20, 2023 Red River’s last record crest – 1897 Category:19th-century floods in the United States Category:1890s floods Category:Natural disasters in North Dakota Red_River_flood, 1897 Red_River_flood, 1897 Category:Red River floods Red River flood