Great Mississippi Flood of 1927

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Great_Mississippi_Flood_of_1927
GPTKB entity
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:dam
gptkbp:affectedArea gptkb:Arkansas
gptkb:Illinois
gptkb:Kentucky
gptkb:Louisiana
gptkb:Mississippi
gptkb:Missouri
gptkb:Oklahoma
gptkb:Tennessee
gptkb:Texas
gptkbp:casualties at least 246 deaths
gptkbp:cause heavy rainfall
levee failures
gptkbp:consequence changes in federal flood control policy
impact on Herbert Hoover's political career
influence on blues music
mass migration of African Americans
gptkbp:date 1927
gptkbp:displacedPeople over 600,000
gptkbp:floodedArea 27,000 square miles
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Mississippi_River_Flood_of_1937
gptkbp:highestWaterLevel 56 feet at Memphis
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
gptkbp:location gptkb:Mississippi_River
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:mediaCoverage extensive national attention
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Mississippi_River_Flood_of_1912
gptkbp:propertyDamage hundreds of millions of dollars
gptkbp:relatedEvent gptkb:Great_Flood_of_1993
gptkbp:reliefEffortsBy gptkb:government
gptkb:American_Red_Cross
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Mississippi_River
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4