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BRACKETING GAGES PRINTED; NO PENN FIGURE EXISTS IN WHAT WAS REACHED
No source found for this section prints a flood crest, a high-water mark or a damage account for Osceola or Penn Township ground specifically — not for 1908, not for March 1982, and not for 1938, which remains unverified for this reach: what exists is the record at the gages bracketing the reach, printed at its strength. Upstream, the St. Joseph River at Elkhart (station 04101000) carries a peak of 26,000 cubic feet per second on 8 March 1908, with no gage height recorded, and 27.91 feet and 18,600 cubic feet per second on 21 March 1982 — the March 1982 event the federal flood report (Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4201) records as having "a recurrence interval of about 50 years" on this river. Downstream, the river crested at 12.7 feet at South Bend on 22 February 2018, with a peak flow of 25,300 cubic feet per second at the Niles gage. The 1908 and 1982 floods certainly passed down the Penn riverfront — the Elkhart gage is only a few river miles above the county line — but "passed down the frontage" is inference, and it is printed here as inference, not as an Osceola record. The nearest thing to a surveyed flood number on Penn ground is the creek's: the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Flood Insurance Study for the county studies Baugo Creek through Osceola and Penn from its confluence to about 2,300 feet beyond Ash Road at the county line, and the published base flood elevations put the creek's 1-percent-annual-chance water surface at +719 feet about 300 feet upstream of the confluence with the "St. Joseph River/Baugo Bay," rising to +726 feet about 100 feet upstream of the Elkhart County boundary — the creek's flood profile across the township's northeast corner. A Penn-specific historic figure would have to come from the study's historic-flooding table, township-level press, or federal high-water-mark files; all three are named at this section's edge.