FLOOD-INUNDATION
PROJECTS

• Georgia
  • Flint River at Albany

• Illinois
  • DuPage County
  • Lake County

• Indiana
  • St. Marys River at Fort Wayne
  • Flood of June 2008

• Kansas
  • Cowskin Creek, Wichita

• Minnesota
  • Floods of September 2010 in Southern Minnesota

• Missouri
  • Upper Blue River, Indian Creek, and Dyke Branch

• New Hampshire
  • Suncook River

• North Carolina
  • LiDAR Applications, Tar River Basin
  • Tar River Basin Mapping
  • Tar River Basin Mapping (NOAA/NWS/AHPS)

• Ohio
  • Blanchard River, Findlay
  • Blanchard River, Findlay (NOAA/NWS/AHPS) -

• Washington
  • Snoqualmie River Basin, 1986 Flood
  • Delivery of Forecast-Flood Inundation Maps, Snoqualmie River
  • Western Washington flooding, January 2009

• Wisconsin
  • Flood of June 2008

Flood Inundation Map Library for the White River near Nora, Marion County, Indiana

A digital GIS-based flood inundation mapping library for a 6-mile reach of the White River near Nora, Marion County, Indiana was created by the USGS Indiana Water Science Center. The library consists of GIS flood surfaces tied to the gage height recorded at USGS streamgage 03351000, White River near Nora, Marion County, Indiana and forecast at the collocated NWS Flood Forecast Point NORI3, White River at Nora; there are one surface produce at each 1-ft gage height from just below bank-full to the maximum expected flood level. Emergency managers, community planners, and the public will be able to access the maps quickly and relate them to forecast flood gage heights through the NWS AHPS Web service for White River at Nora.

For additional information, please see USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5138.

Flood-inundation areas for White River near Nora, Indiana (station 03351000)

Use the links below to download flood-inundation images and geospatial data. For each stage, data is offered in two formats:

• PDF: High resolution images (5 Mb)
• KMZ: Used by applications, as in Google Earth, to display geospatial data (133 Kb)

 GIS layers; ESRI raster and vector files, and associated metadata files (3 Mb ZIP file)