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wrecked wooden house in floodwater

Street view showing food damaged cars and buildings

Bridge over creek covered in flood debris

Aerial view of white tents set up in rows on oval racetrack

African American Flood Refugees

plates with apples under a flag and a sign saying "Berryville

Aerial view of flooded town

Arkansas City Flood

White men and women soldiers unload boxes from truck near American Red Cross volunteers and crowd

Arkansas National Guard Assisting Hurricane Katrina Evacuees

Flooded river valley seen from elevated rocky outcropping

Arkansas River 2019 Flood

Multistory building with extensive damage

Arlington Hotel

Metal buildings partially submerged by flood waters

Bald Knob Flood

part of a bridge extending into a river with flooded city in background

Baring Cross Bridge; 1927

Flooded street with small house and telephone poles

Batesville 1915 Flood

Wooden church building with two front doors missing roof

Bethesda Tornado

Small home with steeply angled roof surrounded by water

Buildings in state of near collapse with fallen trees in foreground

Blevins Tornado, 1921

Damaged buildings and houses as seen from above

Cabot Tornado Damage

Remaining walls of church building lacking room and people standing amid ruins

Church Destroyed

Buildings half underwater with boats in the foreground

Clarendon Flood

Buildings half underwater with people standing on second story porch

Clarendon Hotel

Aerial view of tents in alongside road clustered near trees

Clarendon Refugees

man sitting on car in flooded road

Sandbags being lowered off of a concrete bridge by an excavator to prevent flooding

Dardanelle Flooding

A flooded downtown city block photographed from a small boat pictured in the foreground.

Dermott 1927 Flood

Aerial view of flooded town

Steam train on flooded tracks with smoke billowing from its smoke stack

Flooded neighborhood with highway bridge over river in the background

Desha County Flooding

Two white men wearing hats walking on flooded streets

Dixie 1927 Flood

People in boats floating past flooded buildings

Rows and rows of mobile homes in fields as seen from above

Large number of children milling about outside wooden structure

African American men

White child standing in street covered in water

Two military vehicles parked on road near flooded section

Flooded Highway

Military vehicles driving through small town

Flooding in Cotton Plant

Aerial view people line up by building near trucks and rows of more than 100 tents

Forrest City Refugee Camp

Aerial view of tents alongside road

Forrest City Refugees

Flooded town viewed from hill top by wood frame barns and ridge in distance

stadium structures half submerged in flood waters

Fort Smith Flood

Cars driving down the street between rows of destroyed houses

Fort Smith Tornado

Black car parked on flooded street with two people standing in the waters in the distance

Fulton 1927 Flood

River almost overflowing levee with people standing among houses

Two men examining levee next to overflowing river

destroyed mobile homes and debris

Gassville Tornado Damage, 2008

Storefront buildings with street filled with water

Group of white men and women standing outside "Stafford's Dry Goods, Clothing, and Shoes" store, the front overhang of which has collapsed

Green Forest Tornado

White men in military uniforms in front of damaged building removing sheet metal

Green Forest Tornado

Street view showing flood waters

Men in boats on flooded street with houses in the background

"Holla Bend" road under water with road sign in the foreground

Holla Bend Flooding

Aerial view of tents amid field near small town

Holly Grove Refugees

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