The 1948 Columbia River flood (or Vanport Flood) was a regional flood that occurred in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada. Large portions...

contemporary Portland city boundary and the Columbia River. It was destroyed in the 1948 Columbia River flood and not rebuilt. It sat on what is currently...

Northwest floods were a series of floods in Washington, Oregon, and the Idaho Panhandle in the United States. Large portions of the Columbia River and Puget...

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in the Columbia River basin. Planning efforts were slow until the 1948 Columbia River flood caused extensive damage from Trail, British Columbia, to near...

built across the river for power generation, navigation, irrigation, and flood control. The 14 hydroelectric dams on the Columbia's main stem and many...

1948 Columbia River flood The 1948 Berwickshire flood occurred on 12 August, when extremely heavy rain for the preceding six days caused the rivers Tweed...

Fraser River flood had a return period of slightly more than 500 years and the 1948 flood was close to a 200-year event.: 22  The 1997 Red River flood was...

Oregon's then second-largest city, which was destroyed by the 1948 Columbia River flood, and the Fair Housing Act. It is described by its organizers as...

built in outer North Portland to house shipyard workers. The 1948 Columbia River flood destroyed Vanport and displaced over 16,000 people. The African...

The Willamette River (/wɪˈlæmɪt/ wil-AM-it) is a major tributary of the Columbia River, accounting for 12 to 15 percent of the Columbia's flow. The Willamette's...

floods were a series of floods that affected British Columbia, Canada, and parts of neighboring Washington state in the United States. The flooding and...

in 1946 affected the city. The weather pattern that caused the 1948 Columbia River flood was a widespread disaster throughout the region and both the Chehalis...

both banks of the Columbia River, approximately 10 km (6.2 mi) north of the United States border. This section of the Columbia River valley is located...

two of the most destructive occurring in June 1894 and May 1948. The 1948 Columbia River flood almost topped the Interstate Bridge's support piers and completely...

California Disasters, 1812-1899: Firsthand Accounts of Fires, Shipwrecks, Floods, Epidemics, Earthquakes and Other California Tragedies. Quill Driver Books...

740 km) long, it is the largest tributary of the Columbia River, which is the largest North American river that empties into the Pacific Ocean. Beginning...

the country. The Act was prompted in part by floods that swept through the Columbia River watershed in 1948, destroying Vanport, then the second largest...

the 1948 Columbia River floods, Vanport, a small wartime public housing community, primarily inhabited by employees of Kaiser Shipyards, was flooded and...

to flood risk. There have been two major region-wide floods in 1894 and 1948, both associated with an extreme spring freshet of the Fraser River. Other...

Flood Control Act of 1946. Flood Control Act of 1950. The Act was prompted in part by floods that swept through the Columbia River watershed in 1948,...

20th century, from 1900 through 1999, inclusive. The greatest flood of the Kansas River on record of in the memory of the oldest inhabitants living along...

12 feet (3.7 m) above flood stage, the flooding of the Willamette River at Portland in 1964 was second only to the 1948 flood that wiped out Vanport...

Kootenay river flows into the Columbia River at Castlegar. The Columbia Basin is noted for its spring floods, major flood years were 1876, 1894, 1948 and 1964...

terminus. Many of the dams in the Columbia River watershed were not created for the specific purposes of water storage or flood protection. Instead, the primary...

West Kootenay Power. After the 1948 Vanport Oregon flood, the 1961 Columbia River Treaty led to the construction of the flood control Duncan Dam in 1967,...

The Historic Columbia River Highway is an approximately 75-mile-long (121 km) scenic highway in the U.S. state of Oregon between Troutdale and The Dalles...

rocks," in several native languages) was a tribal fishing area on the Columbia River, just east of the Cascade Mountains, on what is today the border between...

open for the possible enlargement of the system. Water pumped from the Columbia River is carried over 331 miles (533 km) of main canals, stored in a number...

The Willamette River is a 187-mile (301 km) tributary of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Oregon. The upper tributaries of the Willamette originate...