January 23, 1937, 3 days prior to the crest.

 

Main Street, Dayton, 1937
picture on right by John Bischoff

 

Tacoma Beach in the 1937 Flood

 

Note Speers Hospital in the background

 

Rifkins, from 5th & McKinney	3rd Street	A back yard in Dayton	1937 Flood at Tacoma	Bank of Dayton, 1937
photos by John Bischoff

 

Walnut Street, 1937	Sixth & Berry	Sixth & McKinney	Between McKinney & Vine	Front Street
photos by John Bischoff

	In 1937, 75% of Dayton felt the floodwaters: over 7,000 people (out of a population of 10,000)  were forced out of their homes, 392 houses were damaged too badly to be repaired, and 51 houses simply lifted off their foundations and floated down the river, never to be seen, in Dayton, again.
		“All She Saved”

	Walnut	Vine
Ervin Terrace	McKinney	Dayton
Berry	Clay	Main
Boone	Kenton	Sixth Avenue
	from the Benham St. Bridge	Sixth Avenue
This remarkable set of images, taken on the day the flood crested, are from the collection of Andrew Vasche, at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton county

Overlooking Fifth & Benham	Overlooking Fifth, Between Kenton & Benham	Overlooking Dayton	Fourth & McKinney	Terrace Avenue
photos by John Bischoff

  

	Waddies	5th & Clark	Tacoma	Somewhere in Dayton

		5th & Kenton*
	5th and Benham*	Tacoma Coaster visible*	North on Kenton*
	unknown year*	5th & Boone	309 Sixth, looking at houses on 5th*
	Looking north from Waddies*	5th and Kenton looking East*	5th and Kenton looking East*
	The ten images above are all from Tammy Cornett's Facebook page, The History of Dayton, Ky. We note that she had reservations about the images we've marked with an *, in regard to whether they were really 1937 flood pics. 1933 and 1945 would be the closest big floods on either side of 1937. To her point, we note some of these pics have no flood waters.

Wadsworth Watch Case in the 1937 Flood, a.k.a. Waddies
	two pictures on right by John Bischoff

 

Fifth Street	1937 Flood in Dayton Thanks to Patty Stanger Ludwig for this  picture, taken by her Dad.		Dayton, Unknown specifics

Still want to know why they need a floodwall in Dayton? photos by M. Parks Watson

 

Aerial of Dayton, 1937 Flood note roller coaster of Tacoma Park, far left	Dayton, January, 1937	The flood left this boat in Dayton

Third near Benham	Fourth and Berry	Forman's, on River St.

 

3rd and Benham	Benham, between 3rd and 4th	3rd and Benham

 

3rd & McKinley	Got out alive	3rd near Benham

More of the aftermath. The image on the far left has eight houses smashed together.

 

Dayton Scenes from the 1937 Flood		Dayton Damage in the 1937 Flood

 

These are all from the 1937 Flood

Kentucky Post, February 4, 1937

 

Fourth Street in Dayton, 1937
The flood water isn't the worst; the muddy aftermath is.
From a Facebook post by Elder Merry