Disasters: Natural & Man-Made » Floods & Dams

1913 Flood - Tiffin, Ohio

Buffalo Creek Disaster

West Virginia. Flood on February 26, 1972 which killed 118 people.

Devastation on the Delaware

A book for sale. The first comprehensive documentary of the 1955 flood on the Delaware River, caused by Hurricane Diane. Covers both sides of the river from Port Jervis, NY to Trenton, NJ. Affected areas of NY, NJ and PA. Includes in-depth treatment of the washing away of Camp Davis in Monroe County, PA, where almost 80 people were killed, including some entire families. 456 pp. narrative non-fiction, illustrated with 12 maps & diagrams, 105 historic photos. Fully indexed, appendices.

GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Floods

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

I Dream of Genealogy - Disasters - 1928 St. Francis Dam Victims

California.

Johnstown Flood Museum

Johnstown, Pennsylvania. This site includes a concise history of the flood, a fast facts list and a variety of essays about different facets of the flood's historical importance. A PDF list of flood victims is also available.

Johnstown Flood National Memorial

South Fork, Pennsylvania. Memorial to the over 2,200 people who died in the flood of 1889. From the National Park Service.

New England Flood of 1927

November 1927 floods which killed 85 people, mostly in Vermont.

Significant Floods in the United States During the 20th Century - USGS Measures a Century of Floods

From the U.S. Geological Survey. Includes dates, locations & number of deaths.

The 1913 Flood in Ohio

The Austin Dam Memorial Association

Devoted to preserving the Austin Dam/Freeman Run Valley area of Potter County, Pennsylvania, and remembering those who perished in Pennsylvania's second-worst dam break disaster on September 30, 1911.

The Great New York Floods 1913

Story of the great flood and cyclone disasters in New York State, edited by Thomas H. Russell.

William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster

California. The failure of the St. Francis Dam, and the resulting loss of over 500 lives in the path of a roaring wall of water, was a scandal that resulted in the almost complete destruction of the reputation of its builder, William Mulholland.