Levees / Minnesota / 5705000066

Root River/ Rush Creek - Rushford - West Levee - Levees A and B

Rushford, Fillmore County, Minnesota. On the Root River, Rush Creek. USACE records 490 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
490
USACE figure
Structures
340
in the leveed area
Levee length
1.8
miles
Leveed area
0.24
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
5705000066
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
11/18/2009
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Rushford, MN
Waterway
Root River, Rush Creek
Segments
1
USACE district
St. Paul
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
5
Congressional district
01
Consequence estimate
$114.4 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 5705000066. 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.