YEAR |
FEET |
STATION/COMMENTS |
1832 |
18.08 |
At Pearl Street. |
1838 |
20-30 |
|
1843 |
18.03 |
|
1848 |
|
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1852 |
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1867 |
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Did considerable damage to East side and swept away gates of West Side
Canal. |
1868 |
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Submerged banks of canals. |
1883 |
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Log jam created flood. |
1885 |
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Rose higher than the 1883 flood. |
1889 |
15.1 |
|
1901 |
14.1 |
|
1903 |
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Sudden spring flood washed out North Park Bridge. |
1904 |
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Greatest flood known to Grand Rapids; 20.4 at Pearl Street; inundated
West side & lower East side. |
1905 |
18.1 Pearl St.
20.9 Fulton St. |
|
1907 |
18.5 Pearl St.
21.3 Fulton St. |
|
1912 |
15.8 Pearl St.
18.6 Fulton St. |
|
1916 |
15.8 Pearl St.
18.6 Fulton St. |
|
1918 |
16.4 Pearl St.
19.2 Fulton St. |
|
1919 |
16.4 Pearl St.
19.2 Fulton St. |
|
1942 |
16.1 Pearl St.
18.9 Fulton St. |
|
1947 |
17.6 Pearl St.
20.4 Fulton St. |
|
1948 |
18.4 Pearl St.
21.2 Fulton St. |
|
1960 |
16.4 Pearl St.
19.2 Fulton St. |
|
1971 |
16.9 |
|
1974 |
16.8 at Fulton St. |
|
1975 |
16.8 at Fulton St. |
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