List of flooded towns in the United States
These are U.S. towns and villages flooded by the creation of dams, destroyed by the advancing sea, or washed away in floods and never rebuilt.
Arkansas
California
- Baird, under Lake Shasta [1]
- Copper City, under Lake Shasta [2]
- Elmore, under Lake Shasta [3]
- Etter, under Lake Shasta [4]
- Kennett, under Lake Shasta [5]
- Morley, under Lake Shasta [6]
- Pitt, under Lake Shasta [7]
- Winthrop, under Lake Shasta [8]
Colorado
- Sopris, flooded by the creation of Trinidad Lake State Park Reservoir
- Dillon, under Dillon Reservoir
Connecticut
Indiana
- Fairfield, under Brookville Lake
- Somerset, under Mississinewa Reservoir
Kentucky
- Eddyville, Kentucky, flooded by the creation of Lake Barkley.
- Kuttawa, Kentucky, flooded by the creation of Lake Barkley.
- Birmingham, Kentucky, flooded by the creation of Kentucky Lake.
Maine
- Flagstaff, under Flagstaff Lake
Maryland
Massachusetts
- Dana, under Quabbin Reservoir
- Enfield, under Quabbin Reservoir
- Greenwich, under Quabbin Reservoir
- Prescott, partially under Quabbin Reservoir
Michigan
- Rawsonville, under Belleville Lake
Mississippi
- Ben Lomond, Mississippi[10][11]
- Coldwater, flooded by Arkabutla Lake and relocated
- New Mexico, Mississippi[12]
- Port Anderson, Mississippi[13][14]
- Prentiss, Bolivar County, Mississippi[15]
Nevada
- St. Thomas, under Lake Mead
New York
- Arena, flooded by Pepacton Reservoir
- Boiceville, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir
- Brown's Station, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir
- Cannonsville, flooded by Cannonsville Reservoir
- Elko, flooded by Allegheny Reservoir
- Gilboa, flooded by Schoharie Reservoir and relocated
- Glenford, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir and relocated
- Kensico, flooded by Kensico Reservoir
- Neversink, flooded by Neversink Reservoir and relocated
- Olive, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir
- Olive Bridge, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir and relocated
- Pepacton, flooded by Pepacton Reservoir
- Shavertown, flooded by Pepacton Reservoir
- Shokan, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir
- Stony Hollow, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir
- West Hurley, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir and relocated
- West Shokan, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir
North Carolina
- Judson, flooded by Fontana Lake[16]
- Proctor, flooded by Fontana Lake
Oregon
- Arlington, flooded by Lake Umatilla but relocated
- Bayocean, destroyed by erosion into the Pacific Ocean
- Blalock, inundated by the backwaters from the John Day Dam
- Celilo, flooded by Lake Celilo
- Champoeg, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862
- Copper, under Applegate Reservoir
- Detroit, inundated by Detroit Lake and relocated
- Dorena, flooded by Dorena Reservoir and relocated
- Homestead, possibly under the Hells Canyon Reservoir
- Linn City, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862
- Orleans, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862
- Robinette, under Brownlee Reservoir
- Vanport, destroyed by the flooding of the Columbia River
Pennsylvania
- Corydon, flooded by Allegheny Reservoir
- Livermore, flooded by the Conemaugh Dam
- Kinzua, flooded by Allegheny Reservoir
- Milford Mills, flooded by creation of Marsh Creek Lake
- Wilsonville, flooded to create Lake Wallenpaupack
Rhode Island
- Scituate, partially flooded by Scituate Reservoir
South Carolina
- Ferguson, flooded by Lake Marion
- Andersonville, flooded by Lake Hartwell
Utah
- Adventure, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862
- Connellsville, flooded by Electric Lake
- Hailstone, flooded by Jordanelle Reservoir
- Keetley, flooded by Jordanelle Reservoir
- Linwood, flooded by Flaming Gorge Reservoir
- Rockport, flooded by Rockport Reservoir
Washington
- Vantage, flooded by the Wanapum Dam
References
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- ^ Cassie, Ron (March 4, 2019). ""Rumor or Fact? A Town Under Loch Raven Reservoir". Baltimore Magazine. Retrieved November 6, 2019.
- ^ "Ben Lomond Landing, Mississippi". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "Ben Lomond Landing, Mississippi" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
- ^ Hall, Russell S.; Nowell, Princella W.; Childress, Stacy (2000). Washington County, Mississippi. Arcadia. p. 7.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Port Anderson (historical)
- ^ "Port Anderson, Mississippi" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
- ^ Crider, Bill (July 11, 1954). "Mississippi River Uncovering Community it Buried Years Ago". St. Joseph News-Press.
- ^ Tennessee Valley Authority, The Fontana Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction, and Initial Operations of the Fontana Project, Technical Report No. 12 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 1-13, 43-45, 453.