Levees / Illinois / 5605320001

Big Five Levee System

Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. On the Mississippi River, Mississippi River, Sexton Creek Main Ditch. USACE records 1,664 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
1,664
USACE figure
Structures
990
in the leveed area
Levee length
54.6
miles
Leveed area
76.74
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5605320001
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
11/08/2019
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Clear Creek Drainage & Levee District, East Cape Girardeau & Clear Creek Drainage, North Alexander Drainage & Levee District, Preston Drainage & Levee District
Waterway
Mississippi River, Mississippi River, Sexton Creek Main Ditch
Segments
4
USACE district
St. Louis
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
5
Congressional district
12
Consequence estimate
$145.5 million
Flood of record
08/08/1993

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 5605320001. 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.