This engineering feat became the largest drainage district in the country and made the area of the nation's most diverse agricultural regions.

Against this background, a private Act of Parliament was obtained in 1759, which created two drainage districts.

Counties typically have dozens even hundreds of drainage districts.

In 1917, landowners along the slough had formed three drainage districts to control floods.

Following the clearing of the land, levees were built and drainage districts were formed.

The cities, the drainage districts, the county, and a regional government, Metro, have overlapping jurisdictions in the watershed.

In 1914, more than 20 drainage districts existed in Stoddard County.

For the first time, drainage projects could be adequately financed and many drainage districts were created in the Bootheel.

Internal drainage districts (which maintained smaller streams and ditches, especially in the lowlands) were to be funded from within their own areas.

The financial standing of the Drainage District had steadily improved since the 1807 Act, and they were repaying the money borrowed in earlier years.