Levees / Indiana / 3905000042

Levee Unit No. 8 Levee System

Plainville, Daviess County, Indiana. On the White River. USACE records 182 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
182
USACE figure
Structures
126
in the leveed area
Levee length
18.4
miles
Leveed area
25.11
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
3905000042
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
NA
Inspection date
09/26/2022
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Levee Unit 8 Commission
Waterway
White River
Segments
1
USACE district
Louisville
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
5
Congressional district
08
Consequence estimate
$30.7 million
Flood of record
11/19/1993

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 3905000042. 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.