Photo: Lock Haven Flood Protection Project Marker

Photographer: Mike Wintermantel
Taken: May 27, 2013
Caption: Lock Haven Flood Protection Project Marker
Additional Description: Side C
Through the years Lock Haven has suffered from floods, eighteen of which were over 25 feet. Those floods have left the people of Lock Haven robbed of their homes, possessions and means of life.

1744 Floods of unrecorded height,
1758 but noted historically for their
1772 destruction.
1784 March 15, 1784 - The 1st "Ice Flood"
1786 Oct. 1786 - The 1st "Pumpkin Flood"
1800

1829 Many local bridges damaged or
1846 destroyed
1847 Oct. 9, 1847 - 34.7' - 4' higher than
any previous flood.
The "2nd Pumpkin Flood"

1851 July 18 & 19 - 48 hrs. of raging
storms caused flood higher than
previous years.

1865 March 17 - 25.67' 2 million in damage.
Bridges from Farrandsville to
Northumberland destroyed.

1889 June 1 - 33.1" rain fell for 49 hours.
3/4 of city was inundated. The Jay St.
Bridge was the only one left between
here and Sunbury. Marked the end of
the West Branch Canal.

1894 May 31 - 26.4' Thunderbolts and fire
accompanied flooding.

1918 Feb. 21 - 26.8' "2nd Ice Flood" cakes
of ice were 12' in depth.
Submitted: December 30, 2014, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p296737
File Size: 2.401 Megabytes

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