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Online Request for Floodplain Elevations

Contact:  Jerry Fulcher 517-335-3181


     
If your site is located in a community that is in the National Flood Insurance Program, there may be elevation data on the FEMA web site. A map may be obtained from one of the following sources:

  • Call FEMA at 1-800-358-9616 or go to the FEMA Flood Map Store and search the catalog for the community where your site is located.
  • Contact your local community offices.  The local planning/zoning office or building department should have copies of their community's floodplain maps.

If you cannot find an elevation for your site, please fill in all fields in the form below then click the Submit button. You can move to successive fields using the tab key. Please fully describe the location so we can find it on a map, using road intersections, Section/Town/Range information, etc. DO NOT simply give a street address for the site - we cannot locate sites with just an address.

We may only be able to determine a conservatively approximate elevation, depending on how much data and information we have for a particular stream. If this is the case, you may want to refine the estimate by hiring a consultant to determine a more exact elevation.

You MUST also submit a site location map. If you have a digital location map or link to a map, please attach it using the following form or email it to the appropriate staff person on the Floodplain Engineering Staff Map.  If you prefer to fax it, contact the appropriate engineering staff for their fax number or refer to the WRD phone list.  Please include the county where the site is and your name and telephone number in the email's subject line or on the fax so we can pair your map with the correct floodplain request.

Please allow up to 60-90 days for a response.

* Mandatory information

Contact Information 

*Name  

*Street address  

*City     *State     *Zipcode  

*Telephone  

*Email address  

Reason for Request

Check One:

  • Lender requirement for flood insurance:
  • Real estate purchase requirement:
  • Proposed new development in the floodplain:

If new development, type of floodplain development proposed:

  

Site Information 

*City, village, or township  

*County  

*Town    *Range    *Section  

[ Note:  Town, Range, and Section information can usually be found in the legal property description on a tax bill.  An example is T12N, R5E, NW 1/4 section 5. ]

*Parcel ID number  

Subdivision or lot number  

*Name of river or stream  

*Type of project  

*Horizontal distance from river or stream    

*Vertical distance above normal low water level in the river  

Please refer to the figure below to provide as much of the labeled information as possible in the box below the figure. You can include a map as an attachment (below) or fax or email it to the appropriate staff person on the Floodplain Engineering Staff Map. 

Sample Site Information figure 

Site Location Map file:  
Supported file types are: png, bmp, jpg, gif, tif, doc, rtf, and pdf.  Please limit an attachment's file size as much as possible.  We will not get your form submittal if it's larger than 15 MB. 

Additional Site Information:

 

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