Levees / North Carolina / 6105006001

Princeville Dike

Princeville, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. On the Tar River. USACE records 343 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
343
USACE figure
Structures
500
in the leveed area
Levee length
3.3
miles, plus 0.00 of floodwall
Leveed area
1.29
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
6105006001
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
03/23/2022
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
North Carolina, Town of Princeville, NC
Waterway
Tar River
Segments
2
USACE district
Wilmington
USACE division
South Atlantic Division
FEMA region
4
Congressional district
01
Consequence estimate
$72.4 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

North Carolina
All levee systems in this state
Edgecombe County, NC
All levee systems in this county

Source: USACE National Levee Database, system 6105006001. 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.