Levees / Kansas / 5805000020

Cottonwood River Levee

Marion, Marion County, Kansas. On the Cottonwood River, Mud Creek. USACE records 517 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
517
USACE figure
Structures
296
in the leveed area
Levee length
3.4
miles
Leveed area
1.13
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
5805000020
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
03/15/2022
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Marion, KS
Waterway
Cottonwood River, Mud Creek
Segments
1
USACE district
Tulsa
USACE division
Southwestern Division
FEMA region
7
Congressional district
02
Consequence estimate
$180.3 million
Flood of record
07/11/1951

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 5805000020. 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.