Levees / Kentucky / 4005000003

Hickman KY - Obion River System

Ridgely, Lake County, Tennessee. On the Mississippi River. USACE records 1,888 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
1,888
USACE figure
Structures
1,250
in the leveed area
Levee length
60.0
miles, plus 0.87 of floodwall
Leveed area
488.24
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
4005000003
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
NA
Inspection date
07/25/2022
Rehabilitation programme
NA
Responsible sponsor
Board of Levee Commissioners of Fulton Co., KY, City of Hickman, Kentucky, Dyer Cty Levee & DD No. 1, Lake Cty Levee and DD, Reelfoot LD of Lake and Obion Cos., TN, USACE - Memphis District
Waterway
Mississippi River
Segments
5
USACE district
Memphis
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
4, 6, 7
Congressional district
01, 08
Consequence estimate
$185.6 million
Flood of record
04/02/1937

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 4005000003. 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.