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Route 66 State Park. / 38.50639°N 90.59028°W / 38.50639; -90.59028. Route 66 State Park is a public recreation area located on the Meramec River at the site of the former town of Times Beach, Missouri. [5] The state park encompasses 419 acres (170 ha) one mile (1.6 km) east of Eureka .
The Meramec River (/ ˈ m ɛr ɪ m æ k /), sometimes spelled Maramec River (the original US mapping spelled it Maramec but later changed it to Meramec), is one of the longest free-flowing waterways in the U.S. state of Missouri, draining 3,980 square miles (10,300 km 2) while wandering 218 miles (351 km) from headwaters southeast of Salem to where it empties into the Mississippi River near St ...
Times Beach is a ghost town in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, 17 miles (27 km) southwest of St. Louis and 2 miles (3 km) east of Eureka.Once home to more than two thousand people, the town was completely evacuated early in 1983 due to TCDD (a type of dioxin) contamination, formerly the largest civilian exposure to the compound in the history of the United States.
Within this zone, the flooded area totaled around 30,000 square miles (78,000 km 2) and was the worst such U.S. disaster since the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, as measured by duration, area inundated, persons displaced, crop and property damage, and number of record river levels. In some categories, the 1993 flood even surpassed the 1927 ...
River flooding continued through March and into April; even stretching to early May in a few areas. Several river gauges throughout the Midwest and southeast were in major flood stage . [9] Some of the worst river flooding of the event occurred in the western suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri , along the Meramec River ; [10] 451 homes were damaged ...
In Thebes, Illinois, about 125 miles (201 km) downriver from St. Louis, the floodwater was expected to crest at 47.5 feet (14 m) on Sunday, more than 1.5 feet (0.5 meters) above the 1995 record ...
December 6, 1991. Meramec State Park is a public recreation area located near Sullivan, Missouri, about 60 miles from St. Louis, along the Meramec River. [4] The park has diverse ecosystems such as hardwood forests and glades. There are over 40 caves located throughout the park, the bedrock is dolomite.
Castlewood State Park is a public recreation area and Missouri state park occupying 1,818 acres (736 ha) which straddles the Meramec River in St. Louis County, Missouri.The most visited section of the state park lies on the north side of the Meramec; the park acreage on the south side of the river is accessed from Lone Elk County Park and includes the World Bird Sanctuary.