Kansas City Region
Parkville's riverfront floods
Parkville fronts the Missouri River, where the English Landing riverfront area floods, so flood-zone status matters near the river.
Parkville sits on the Missouri River in Platte County, and its riverfront, including the English Landing park area, lies in the floodplain and floods during high water on the Missouri. Near the river a FEMA flood-zone designation is the first question, affecting flood-insurance expectations and lender requirements. The FEMA Flood Map Service Center is the official place to check a specific address. The practical move is to look up a parcel’s flood-zone status early when buying near the Parkville riverfront, and to recognize that the riverfront park flooding is a normal feature of the Missouri’s behavior, not a one-off.
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Where this fits: this note belongs to Platte County. See every local note for the county on its page.