Yes — the flooding I described was in the Ozarks. Reynolds County, Iron County, and Crawford County (where Lesterville, Annapolis, Centerville, Ellington, and Davisville are located) are all part of the Ozark Highlands/Ozark Foothills region of southeastern Missouri. So this wasn’t a separate event — it’s the same flood, and it did hit Ozark communities directly.
A couple of specific details worth highlighting:
Johnson’s Shut-Ins State Park, a well-known Ozarks tourist destination in Reynolds County, was shown underwater in the flooding.
Camp Taum Sauk, where the 200+ children were evacuated by Black Hawk helicopter, sits near Taum Sauk Mountain — Missouri’s highest point, also in the Ozarks.
The Black River, which hit its record 28.7-foot crest, is a defining waterway of that part of the Ozark region.
So to be precise: this was southeastern Ozarks flooding — a different sub-region than the southwestern Ozark towns (Monett, Pierce City, Neosho, Stockton, Warsaw, Bolivar) that have the well-documented sundown-town history I found. Both areas are "the Ozarks" broadly, but they’re geographically distinct parts of that larger region, and I don’t have a source connecting the specific racial-exclusion history to the southeastern towns that actually flooded this week.
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