Aurora, Indiana Flood
February 1882
On Tuesday morning the weather was quite cold
and snow fell in fitful gusts, yet the rise
continued slowly but surely. The water flooded
Main Street from the bridge half way to Second
Street, and from the foot of Second Street to
Chambers & Stevens’
corner. The people living on these streets were
forced to move into the upper stories of their
houses. On third Street the water came half way
up to Main, on Fourth Street nearly to
Judiciary, while it reached
Peter Koehler’s
corner at the foot of Fifth Street, shutting off
communication, except by boats to "Texas." In
the afternoon the rise was about half an inch
per hour. The floor of the Main Street bridge
was covered before 5 o’clock, and the water
worked up in the gutter opposite
Riddell’s drug
store, and up on Main to
McClellan’s blacksmith shop. At 8
o’clock Tuesday evening the river came to a
stand, the Big Miami having subsided, and
between 11 and 12 o’clock it began to recede,
falling by morning about eleven inches, which
was a great relief to everybody.—Independent,
February 23, 1882.
History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties,
Indiana, 1885, Page 321
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