Levees / California / 5205001011

RD 0817 and RD 2103 - City of Wheatland

Wheatland, Yuba County, California. On the Bear River, Dry Creek. USACE records 3,275 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
3,275
USACE figure
Structures
1,593
in the leveed area
Levee length
16.1
miles
Leveed area
10.48
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5205001011
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
02/13/2013
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
CA Department of Water Resources, Central Valley Flood Protection Board, RD 0817 - Carlin, RD 2103 - Wheatland Vicinity
Waterway
Bear River, Dry Creek
Segments
4
USACE district
Sacramento
USACE division
South Pacific Division
FEMA region
9
Congressional district
01, 03
Consequence estimate
$292.4 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

Source: USACE National Levee Database, system 5205001011. 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.