Levees / Tennessee / 4005000024

NFFDR Levee System

Dyersburg, Dyer County, Tennessee. On the North Fork Forked Deer River. USACE records 812 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
812
USACE figure
Structures
257
in the leveed area
Levee length
1.6
miles
Leveed area
0.40
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
4005000024
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Very Low
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
12/08/2015
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Dyersburg, TN, Tennken Railroad
Waterway
North Fork Forked Deer River
Segments
2
USACE district
Memphis
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
4
Congressional district
08
Consequence estimate
$39.1 million
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 4005000024. 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.