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What were the worst floods in the United States?

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The worst floods in the United States from river overflow were in 1913 on the Miami River (a tributary of the Ohio), in 1927 and 1973 on the Mississippi River, in 1935-36 on several New England rivers, and in 1993 when the waters of the Missouri, Mississippi, and some of their tributaries migrated well beyond the floodplains that are regularly submerged each spring to inundate parts of nine states.

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