Levees / Tennessee / 5905000021

MS East

Cleveland, Sunflower County, Mississippi. On the Mississippi River. USACE records 174,762 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
174,762
USACE figure
Structures
74,445
in the leveed area
Levee length
269.9
miles
Leveed area
10805.00
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5905000021
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
High
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
09/25/2014
Rehabilitation programme
Not Eligible
Responsible sponsor
Board Of Mississippi Levee Commissioners, USACE - Memphis District, USACE - Vicksburg District, Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee Board
Waterway
Mississippi River
Segments
2
USACE district
Memphis, Vicksburg
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
4, 6
Congressional district
01, 02, 05, 09
Consequence estimate
$4.40 billion
Flood of record
Not published

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 5905000021. 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.