Did the Rock River's spring flood of April 1830 reach the Standing Post (Ke-Chunk) village site, beside the river on the property?
April 5, 1830
Why it matters
The village was lived in at the time: a Bureau of Indian Affairs decision of 2020 places Standing Post among the two Ho-Chunk villages in the Beloit area in 1830. A flood over the village ground would be part of the people's story on this land.
What we know
The only mention of this flood is an AI-written timeline of 1830 made in 2025, which dates it April 5 and credits "Reports from Fort Winnebago, U.S. Army correspondence" without anything that can be checked. Nothing in our sources confirms the flood. Places to look: Fort Winnebago and Fort Crawford post returns and correspondence for spring 1830, and the Prairie du Chien agency letters.
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