flood

486 photos and 21 illustrations tagged flood, from 33 members of Flickr Commons.

When were these photos & illustrations taken?

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1873

2023

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16% of these photos & illustrations are geotagged.

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The Library of Virginia 200 photos & illustrations
Keene Public Library and the Historical Society of Cheshire County 60 photos & illustrations
State Library of Queensland 54 photos & illustrations
The Library of Congress 41 photos & illustrations
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 23 photos & illustrations
Texas State Archives 17 photos & illustrations
East Riding Archives 17 photos & illustrations
British Library 17 photos & illustrations
National Library of Medicine 10 photos & illustrations
Provincial Archives of Alberta 9 photos & illustrations
SDASM Archives 7 photos & illustrations
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 6 photos & illustrations

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NO CAPTION (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded 29 May
26_0071514 Rohr Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded March 2026
26_0071513 Rohr Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded March 2026
First Train Through Randolph After the Flood from Randolph Historical Society uploaded November 2025
View of Bridge from Main Street from Randolph Historical Society uploaded October 2025
Flood map of Brisbane and suburbs from State Library of Queensland uploaded March 2025
Elevated view of the flooded river and West End, Brisbane, 1893 from State Library of Queensland uploaded March 2025
Burdekin River in flood, 1875 from State Library of Queensland uploaded March 2025
Cairns Harbour Board office after a high tide from State Library of Queensland uploaded March 2025
Chair caught in flood debris at Blackall, Queensland, 1906 from State Library of Queensland uploaded March 2025
Charleville Motors with floodwaters up to the entrance doors, Charleville, 1934 from State Library of Queensland uploaded March 2025
Charlie Rasmussen crossing the Barambah Creek in flood at Byee crossing, ca. 1923 from State Library of Queensland uploaded March 2025
Boy sitting on the bonnet of a car bogged in mud from the 1925 flood at Innisfail, Queensland from State Library of Queensland uploaded March 2025
Transporting an Overland roadster on a flying fox across the Dawson River, ca. 1920 from State Library of Queensland uploaded March 2025
Cobb & Co. coach crossing the swollen Balonne River, St George, 1913 from State Library of Queensland uploaded March 2025

Conversations

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View of South Bank in Richmond

from The Library of Virginia

fotobound said:
Such incredible force. Thanks for sharing.

COPY1/418/917 Flood in Chapel Street, St Ives, Cornwall 1894

from The National Archives UK

1 older comment, and then…
ROGER FROST said:
The first signs of climate change maybe ?
beachcomber australia said:
GoogleMapsStreetView - goo.gl/maps/ZaQcC1BZxjbsZvQD7 Chapel Street seems to be wider now; I hope the houses on the left (and the folk) were not washed away.
HackBitz said:
Most amazing photo!
tedesco57 said:
floods are not a modern phenomena
Julie Storry said:
Perhaps the frequency of floods is increasing

La. Flood 1912 refugees on barge (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

swanq said:
See

See also "The Mississippi River Flood of 1912" by Robert M. Brown
Source: Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, 1912, Vol. 44, No. 9 (1912), pp. 645-657
www.jstor.org/stable/200812