Over the years, he’s made sure never to paint over the mud and handprints from the 1951 flood. “It’s part of history. I like to remember that,” he said. “Of course, it’s getting dimmer ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - 70 years ago on July 13th, 1951, 370,000 Kansans were being displaced from their homes due to an extreme flood that would forever after be known as “Black Friday.” ...

The Northeast Kansas Flood of 1951, a day some call ‘Black Friday ... feet above all previously recorded crests including the Great Flood of 1844. The Marais Des Cygnes, Neosho and Verdigris ...

The year was 1951 and those high waters entered history ... people on flood control,” Perry said. In the wake of the Great Flood, politicians bought the flood control concept and began ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Survivors of the ...

Within the old bones of big brick buildings like the Columbia Burlap & Bag Co., in Kansas City's West Bottoms, new businesses, artist studios and restaurants are finding success in an area that ...

Schuylkill County was a sea of water after being inundated by intense rainfall in the Great Flood of 1902. Starting on the morning of Feb. 28, it rained for nearly 24 hours, swelling waterways to ...

National Guardsmen protect food airlifted to flood-surrounded Calhoun County ... Those along the Great River Road and elsewhere bore the brunt. On April 17, some residents in Grafton were forced ...

Rhonda Monnig was a young mother when the Great Flood of 1993 hit Glasgow, Mo. in early July. She gave birth to her second son the night her house in town flooded. The rest of her family tucked ...

Many of those sonic tributaries reach back to perhaps the worst one in U.S. history: the Great Flood of 1927. That catastrophe shaped how future generations of farmers, families and even ...

Something about flat land attracts bulldozers. The silver lining of the great flood of 1951 has been the restraint of big and foolish development in the floodplain and, consequently, the ...