Levees / Maryland / 2305140001

Forest Heights

Forest Heights, Prince George's County, Maryland. On the Oxon Run. USACE records 322 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
322
USACE figure
Structures
134
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.4
miles, plus 0.25 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.07
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
2305140001
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
11/09/2017
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Prince George County School System, Prince George's County
Waterway
Oxon Run
Segments
2
USACE district
Baltimore
USACE division
North Atlantic Division
FEMA region
3
Congressional district
04
Consequence estimate
$31.4 million
Flood of record
08/01/1955

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 2305140001. 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.