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When the mammoth scope of the 1937 flood became clear, the U.S. Coast Guard stripped its
Atlantic Coast stations of every boat and able-bodied man that could be spared and rushed
them by train to the stricken valley. Here a flotilla of the coast guard craft is assembled at
Third and Walnut Streets in Cincinnati. On January 31, the coast guard reported it had 380
boats on duty in the flood zone and 25 others on the way.
From its headwaters in Butler County, 28-mile-long Mill Creek meanders through the heart
of Greater Cincinnati before it empties into the Ohio River. Much of the 1937 flood damage
in the city came not from the Ohio River itself, but from a swollen Mill Creek that over-
flowed its banks. Typical was this flood scene at Cherry and Hoffner Streets looking toward
Knowlton's Corner in the city's Northside neighborhood.
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