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Record Discharge
- When
- 1844
- Where
- Missouri River
The Great Flood of 1844 yielded the biggest water discharge in recorded history for the Missouri and Upper Mississippi Rivers.
The flood produced a discharge of 1,300,000 cubic feet per second. This volume exceeded later floods, including those in 1951 and 1993, establishing a historical benchmark for hydrological events in North America.
Sources
- Great Flood of 1844 Wikipedia, revision of 2026-01-06
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