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.
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Alma , beneath the Lexington Reservoir Bagby , under Lake McClure Baird , under Lake Shasta [ 13] Bidwell's Bar , under Lake Oroville Camanche , under Camanche Reservoir Cedar Springs , under Silverwood Lake [ 14] Copper City , under Lake Shasta[ 13] Crystal Springs , under Crystal Springs Reservoir Elmore , under Lake Shasta[ 13] Etter , under Lake Shasta[ 13] Jacksonville , under Don Pedro Reservoir [ 15] Kennett , under Lake Shasta[ 13] Melones , under New Melones Lake Monticello , under Lake Berryessa [ 16] Morley , under Lake Shasta[ 13] Mormon Island , under Folsom Lake Old Isabella , under Lake IsabellaOld Kernville , under Lake Isabella Pitt , under Lake Shasta[ 13] Poverty Bar , under Camanche ReservoirPrattville , under Lake Almanor Salmon Falls , under Folsom LakeSearsville , under Searsville Lake Whiskeytown , under Whiskeytown Lake Winthrop , under Lake Shasta[ 13]
Colorado
Connecticut
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Missouri
Mississippi
Montana
Nevada
New York
Arena , flooded by Pepacton Reservoir Boiceville , flooded by Ashokan Reservoir and relocatedBrown's Station , flooded by Ashokan ReservoirCannonsville , flooded by Cannonsville Reservoir Elko , flooded by Allegheny Reservoir Gilboa , flooded by Schoharie Reservoir and relocatedGlenford , flooded by Ashokan Reservoir and relocatedKensico , flooded by Kensico Reservoir Neversink , flooded by Neversink Reservoir and relocatedOlive , flooded by Ashokan ReservoirOlive Bridge , flooded by Ashokan Reservoir and relocatedPepacton , flooded by Pepacton ReservoirShavertown , flooded by Pepacton ReservoirShokan , flooded by Ashokan ReservoirStony Hollow , flooded by Ashokan ReservoirWest Hurley , flooded by Ashokan Reservoir and relocatedWest Shokan , flooded by Ashokan Reservoir
North Carolina
New Jersey
Oregon
Arlington , flooded by Lake Umatilla but relocatedBayocean , 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 relocatedDorena , flooded by Dorena Reservoir and relocatedHomestead , possibly under the Hells Canyon Reservoir Linn City , destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862Orleans , destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862Robinette , under Brownlee Reservoir Vanport , destroyed by the flooding of the Columbia River
Pennsylvania
Aitch , submerged to form Raystown Lake .[ 30] Big Creek Valley , Submerged to form Beltzville Lake .[ 31] Cokeville , under the waters of Conemaugh River Lake .Corydon , flooded by Allegheny Reservoir Fillmore , under the waters of Conemaugh River Lake .[ 32] Instanter , under the waters of East Branch Lake .[ 33] Kinzua , flooded by Allegheny ReservoirLivermore , flooded by the Conemaugh Dam Marburg , under Lake Marburg .[ 34] Milford Mills , flooded by creation of Marsh Creek Lake Social Hall , under the waters of Conemaugh River Lake .[ 32] Somerfield , under the waters of Youghiogheny River Lake .[ 35] Straight , under the waters of East Branch Lake .[ 36] Tohickon , flooded by the creation of Lake Nockamixon [ 37] Wilsonville , flooded to create Lake Wallenpaupack
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Aiken , under Belton Lake Bland , under Belton LakeBluffton , under Lake Buchanan Brookhaven , under Belton LakeDevils River , under Lake Amistad Friendship , under Granger Lake Halsell , under Lake Arrowhead Preston , under Lake Texoma Sparta , under Belton LakeTowash , under Lake Whitney [ 39] Canyon City , under Canyon Lake , Canyon Lake, Texas
Utah
Washington
West Virginia
See also
References
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