Levees / Idaho / 5505000061

Cherry Creek / Shepherd

St. Maries, Benewah County, Idaho. On the St. Joe River. USACE records 105 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemFederally built
People behind it
105
USACE figure
Structures
100
in the leveed area
Levee length
2.3
miles, plus 0.02 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.81
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
5505000061
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
11/21/2013
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of St. Maries, Shepherd Diking District
Waterway
St. Joe River
Segments
2
USACE district
Seattle
USACE division
Northwestern Division
FEMA region
10
Congressional district
01
Consequence estimate
$7.3 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 5505000061. 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.