📍 Shanghai Bend Levee Break Site

historic site · Yuba City · still here

The location where the Feather River levee failed at 12:04 a.m. on December 24, 1955, causing the deadliest flood disaster in modern Yuba-Sutter history. A 23-foot wall of water poured through the breach, killing 38 people and leaving 40,000 homeless. The site is approximately two miles south of Yuba City.

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