A small
Germanic farming community that was, until
recently, located in the
flood plain of the
Missouri River. In
1993, after
four consecutive floods, the
town fathers chose to
relocate the
town. What made the relocation
unique was that, of the 52
houses in the town, 32 were
physically moved to the town's
new location.
The relocation of the community is now a
textbook case for the
Federal Emergency Management Agency (
FEMA), as
federal funding was used
successfully for the
first time in the relocation of an entire town:
today, the
population is roughly the same, and most of the
residents are those who
participated in the relocation project, and new residents are regularly moving in.