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Hours of Operation:
Most district offices are open
Monday through Friday
from 7:30 am to 4:30 PM.
The Memphis District is one of 39 districts in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
We are part of the Mississippi Valley Division. The Memphis District, along with the Vicksburg,
New Orleans, St. Paul, Rock Island and St. Louis Districts fall under the division’s jurisdiction.
The Division Headquarters is in Vicksburg, Miss.
The district covers a 25,000 square mile area of the Mississippi River. We serve customers in
portions of Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky. Our customers also
include 100 flood control districts, water resource and wildlife agencies from six states, four Port
Commissions, the Lower Mississippi Valley Flood Control Association as well as eight Congressional
Districts and 12 Senators.
We are responsible for maintaining and improving 355 miles of the Mississippi River main channel
from Cairo, Illinois, to the mouth of the White River. We also maintain over 640 miles of mainline
levees along the Mississippi River and its tributaries, 8 inland harbors and 254 miles of navigation
channel on the White River in Arkansas.
We are housed in several locations throughout our vast
district. The district headquarters are located in the
Clifford Davis Federal Building in the heart of downtown
Memphis. We also have a river engineering and marine mooring
facility at Ensley Engineer Yard, and field offices in
Caruthersville, Mo. and Wynne, Ark.
This page last updated:
01/04/10
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