May 2019 Flooding at the Wolfe School Museum

Several days of rain stressed the capacity of School Creek raising water level forcing overflow through back through the drain from our school house yard. 

The water level did not reach that of 2015 when the water covered all the cement blocks reaching inches below the level of the school house floor.

In 2000, before the city sold us this plot of land and we moved the school house from Clay Center, we consulted City Manager Virg Ulmer. Virg brought copies of the flood study done when School Creek was straightened and confined by levees. He estimated that we would be safe from all but the rarest of floods by raising the school house on five cement blocks. So far, through 12 years, Virg's advice has served us well. The 2015 flood reached exactly the level we anticipated. This flooding fell short by 1 1/2 blocks. We'll take it.