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Originally Posted by AviationGuy
Correct...no major flood on the river in the city in recent times. Wasn't there a major flood in the 30s or one of those early decades? I remember seeing a photo of a house floating down the river within the city.
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Before Mansfield Dam and Lake Travis were created around 1940 (I think the other Highland Lakes behind Lake Travis came later), there was regular flooding in the area immediately south of downtown on the southern banks of the original river bed. Downtown is situated on higher ground and was not subject to flooding. There were major floods in the 20s and maybe again sometime in the early 1930s.