Levees / Arkansas / 3705000009

Fort Smith Levee District No. 1

Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas. On the Arkansas River. USACE records 355 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
355
USACE figure
Structures
317
in the leveed area
Levee length
1.1
miles, plus 0.68 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.56
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
3705000009
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
12/14/2015
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Fort Smith, AR
Waterway
Arkansas River
Segments
1
USACE district
Little Rock, Tulsa
USACE division
Southwestern Division
FEMA region
6
Congressional district
03
Consequence estimate
$74.2 million
Flood of record
04/16/1945

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 3705000009. 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.