Levees / Texas / 560005000006

Rio Grande Levee System - Hudspeth A

Fort Hancock, Hudspeth County, Texas. On the Rio Grande. USACE records 13 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Federally built
People behind it
13
USACE figure
Structures
25
in the leveed area
Levee length
10.2
miles
Leveed area
8.83
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
560005000006
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Not published
Screening rating (LSAC)
Not Screened
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
Not published
Rehabilitation programme
Not Enrolled
Responsible sponsor
International Boundary and Water Commission
Waterway
Rio Grande
Segments
1
USACE district
Albuquerque
USACE division
South Pacific Division
FEMA region
6
Congressional district
23
Consequence estimate
$7.7 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 560005000006. 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.