Floods

High water at Kansas Avenue and Mill Street in the Armourdale District, Kansas City, Kansas, as an overflowing Kansas River submerges houses and stores. From: Folder entitled Missouri-Kansas Flood, 1951.

Aerial view showing the Kansas River during the flood of 1951 inundating the area around 30th and Southwest Boulevard, Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri. On the upper right can be seen smoke from fires in the area. The affected companies are Battenfield Oil & Grease Company, Socony Vacuum Oil Company's Warehouse, Phillips Tank Farm, Berbiglia Liquor Store, and New England Machinery Company. From: Folder entitled Missouri-Kansas Flood, 1951.

Aerial view northeast of the Argentine Industrial District (in the foreground) and the Armourdale Industrial District on the left, Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri, at the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers showing the area submerged by flood waters. From: Folder entitled Missouri-Kansas Flood, 1951.

Aerial view of part of the Argentine residential district in Kansas City, Kansas, inundated by flood waters from the Kansas and Missouri Rivers. From: Folder entitled Missouri-Kansas Flood, 1951.

Aerial view northeast of Phillips Refinery in the Fairfax Industrial District, Kansas City, Kansas, submerged in waters from the Missouri and Kansas Rivers during the flood of 1951. North Kansas City, Missouri, can be seen in the background. From: Folder entitled Missouri-Kansas Flood, 1951.

Aerial view of the Stock Yard pens in the Central Industrial District, Kansas City, Kansas, with animals therein, surrounded by rising water from the Kansas River during the flood of 1951. From: Folder entitled Missouri-Kansas Flood, 1951.

Looking down the intersection of 7th and Kansas Avenue in the Armourdale District, Kansas City, Kansas, showing stores flooded by the rising Kansas River. From: Folder entitled Missouri-Kansas Flood, 1951.

View looking south off of the Central Avenue Viaduct, Kansas City, Kansas, during the flood of 1951, showing railroad cars floating and submerged in the freight yards. From: Folder entitled Missouri-Kansas Flood, 1951.

South view taken from the Central Avenue bridge showing high water in the freight yards, Central Industrial District, Kansas City, Kansas. From: Folder entitled Missouri-Kansas Flood, 1951.

View from the Intercity bridge on the downstream side of the Missouri-Pacific railroad bridge during the 1951 flood, showing high water from the Kansas River cascading over the railroad bridge. A sign in the foreground reads "Central Industrial Dist - Kansas. From: Folder entitled Missouri-Kansas Flood, 1951.