Flooding

Flooding. . The flood of 1937 was the largest flood known in the modern era in the Louisville area., The Ohio River stretched to be 10 miles wide, with 70% of Louisville submerged and 90% of Jeffersonville. Estimated damage was $250 million which translates to $3.3 billion today., Between January 13th and 24th 15 inches of rain fell forcing many Jeffersonville residents to flee and many others stranded. The flood prompted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to install flood walls along the Ohio which are still used in Jeffersonville today., Image 1 , Boating the streets around the Post Oflice, Library, and Citizens National Bank, January 1937., Image 2 , Churches in 1937 flood, Old Wall Street Church in the distance., Image 3 , City of Jeffersonville and Corona ferry boats at Front Street, now known as Riverside Drive., Image 4 , Flooded business's along Spring Street, January 1937. Notice the 2 people looking on from the second story window., Image 5 , Aerial View from South, 1937., Image 6 , Rose Hill School acted as a central relief station during January of 1937.