Floods of Maysville, Kentucky

Year	Flood Level
Flood Levels from the Various Maysville Floods
1884	66.9 ft
1913	67.8 ft
1937	75.4 ft

Earlier Maysville flood information is here.


1884 Flood This magnificent old photo is from a Facebook post by Jim Rannes	1884 Flood, Front Street, west of Market	2nd and Market in the 1884 Flood
	Jas. T. Kackley, Photographer West Second St.

1884 Flood, at Sutton

News story on Maysville in the 1884 Flood

“Maysville, Feb. 14.-The river rose five inches last night and came to a stand this morning. It has since fallen three inches. Fifteen hundred people are homeless.” Courier-Journal, February 15, 1884

"Thieves are taking advantage of the temporary absence of lighted streets in Maysville [because of the 1884 flood], and are doing some small plundering. It would go hard with them if caught, if one were to judge by the armament of the Marshal and his sides. Two of the latter came aboard the steamer for lunch last midnight. In a big leathern belt around the waist of one were stuck three big navy revolvers." Cincinnati Enquirer, 19, 1884


L & N Crossing the Flooded Waters, January 19, 1907	Between East and west Maysville, 1907 Flood	Maysville, 1907 Flood

1907 Flood
From a Facebook post by Ron Bailey

Front Street, Flood of 1907

The 1907 Flood in Maysville occurred in January, and they thought it was over, but a heavy rains caused a second flooding in March.


The Big Kanawha, destroyed in Ice, 1905 and the 1884 Flood	Looking South from Forrest Avenue, 1909	2nd and Market, 1913


Market Street, 1913 Flood	East Street, 1913 Flood	Second and Market, 1913 Flood	Market Street, 1913 Flood


1940 Flood on Second Street at Market	200 block of W. 2nd Street, in the 1940-50's.	Lower Market, 1945 Flood
	From a Facebook post by Tim J. Dearinger	from a Facebook post by Jim Barbour


Front Street	Second Street	McNeill Lumber	Lower Limestone

East Second Street	Railroad at Front Street	Residential Scene	Cottage Street

Railroad Crossing	Toward Forest Avenue	Bus at RR Crossing	Train Station & Caproni's from a Facebook Post by Jim Rannes
		This section is all 1948 Flood. 1948 was the eighth worst flood ever recorded in Cincinnati (and 1945 was the fourth worst). You don't hear much about them. Our theory is that most everyone who saw them had seen the much worse '37 flood, and they'd won World War II, so they pretty much took '45 and '48 in stride.
At Hutchinson's from a Facebook post by Christian Kalb