The monitoring network within this area

Hydrionis holds 1,575 values from 6 gauges within it. Discharge is a property of a gauge and its reach, not of this drainage area, so this page reports the network and its records rather than a single figure.

Gauges

1,575

Values held

1844–2026

Record spans

Gauges within the Cheat huc8 subbasin

6 monitoring points, positioned as the publisher records them.

Flood peaks, as measured

This gauge's flood record, as measured. Unlike a daily mean it is the discharge at the moment the river was highest, which is the figure flood frequency analysis is built on.

Largest measured flow of each year at CHEAT RIVER NEAR PARSONS, WV

The highest instantaneous discharge the publisher recorded in each year — a flood peak as measured, not a daily average of one. 1844–2025.

Show relevant events (1 event)Shading marks when something was recorded, not what caused the line.

Published by the gauge's own operator from its sub-daily record; Hydrionis stores the figure rather than recomputing it. A year the gauge did not cover produces no value rather than a low one, and the gaps are stated below the chart. A peak is a property of this gauge and its reach: a larger flood upstream or downstream of it is not in this series.

What the shaded periods are (1 event)

A shaded period marks when something was recorded, not what caused the shape of the line. Where the two coincide, they coincided.

Documented record — A documented event, compiled from cited sources after it happened. The dates are as good as the record, which for older events can mean the month rather than the day.

Event	Type	Period	Standing	Authority
Hurricane Katrina water and sanitation collapse	Flood	2005-08-29 – 2005-09-30	Documented record	Compiled record

Not shown on this chart

The 1976 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
The 2022 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Yorkshire drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Cantareira water crisis, São Paulo — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Cape Town Day Zero — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
European drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.

View the data behind this chart

Underlying data
Period	CHEAT RIVER NEAR PARSONS, WV (m³/s)
1844	2,407
1888	2,010
1913	793
1915	736
1916	742
1917	1,430
1918	980
1919	923
1921	365
1923	538
1924	1,164
1925	334
1926	521
1927	445
1928	691
1929	883
1931	317
1932	1,212
1933	572
1934	530
1935	510
1936	1,039
1937	569
1939	1,059
1940	583
1941	416
1942	479
1944	915
1946	595
1947	428
1948	946
1950	456
1951	547
1952	476
1953	464
1954	445
1956	1,215
1957	954
1958	648
1959	660
1960	850
1961	660
1962	963
1963	1,484
1964	963
1965	569
1966	609
1967	1,246
1968	813
1969	430
1970	1,011
1972	1,011
1974	838
1976	487
1978	895
1979	646
1981	736
1982	821
1983	535
1984	878
1985	810
1987	467
1988	470
1989	824
1990	1,203
1991	866
1993	631
1994	2,217
1995	558
1996	2,551
1998	748
1999	640
2000	1,637
2001	643
2002	1,206
2003	1,155
2005	702
2007	977
2008	1,169
2010	1,048
2011	677
2012	722
2013	1,085
2015	1,022
2016	629
2017	1,201
2018	1,136
2019	1,263
2021	1,034
2022	547
2023	513
2024	586
2025	1,076

About this series

Everything below is a property of the data rather than a rating of it. There is deliberately no single confidence score: how much a gap matters depends on what you are about to do with the series, and only you know that.

Source	United States Geological Survey — National Water Information System · US Government work — public domain
How the values came to exist	Measured
Period held	1844–2025
Completeness	51.1% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	24 separate periods inside 1844–2025 hold no value. The longest runs from 1845 to 1887 — 43 years with no reading. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1844 and is not continuous from it: 182 years separate the first value from the last, and 51% of the years between them are held. The span is not the record.
Last read from the publisher	2026-10-01
Redistribution	Permitted by the upstream licences
Commercial reuse	Permitted by the upstream licences. No Hydrionis access tier can widen this.
Methodology	How this was produced

How much of the rain came back out

A discharge in cubic metres per second cannot be compared with anything: the larger number may only mean the larger catchment. Divided by the area draining to the gauge it becomes a depth of water over that land, which answers a question a reader already has — of the rain that fell here, how much came back out as river?

Water leaving the catchment above CHEAT RIVER NEAR PARSONS, WV, as a depth

The year's flow spread over the land draining to this gauge, in millimetres — the same unit rainfall is measured in. 1913–2025.

Show relevant events (1 event)Shading marks when something was recorded, not what caused the line.

Computed by Hydrionis from the published annual mean flow and the catchment area the station's own publisher states. It is not a water balance: the difference between rainfall and runoff is not evaporation alone but also change in groundwater storage, water abstracted and taken elsewhere, and water imported by transfer schemes — which is why a catchment can yield more runoff than the rain that fell on it without anything being measured wrongly. A different area figure rescales every value here by the ratio between them.

What the shaded periods are (1 event)

A shaded period marks when something was recorded, not what caused the shape of the line. Where the two coincide, they coincided.

Documented record — A documented event, compiled from cited sources after it happened. The dates are as good as the record, which for older events can mean the month rather than the day.

Event	Type	Period	Standing	Authority
Hurricane Katrina water and sanitation collapse	Flood	2005-08-29 – 2005-09-30	Documented record	Compiled record

Not shown on this chart

The 1976 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
The 2022 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Yorkshire drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Cantareira water crisis, São Paulo — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Cape Town Day Zero — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
European drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.

View the data behind this chart

Underlying data
Period	CHEAT RIVER NEAR PARSONS, WV (mm)
1913	1,038
1914	752
1915	870
1916	975
1917	768
1918	965
1919	789
1920	878
1921	882
1922	692
1923	776
1924	935
1925	699
1926	985
1927	1,005
1928	745
1929	778
1930	295
1931	696
1932	748
1933	893
1934	577
1935	928
1936	848
1937	933
1938	714
1939	795
1940	806
1941	571
1942	838
1943	683
1944	841
1945	846
1946	583
1947	615
1948	987
1949	835
1950	970
1951	838
1952	681
1953	649
1954	888
1955	702
1956	1,096
1957	761
1958	863
1959	700
1960	755
1961	979
1962	825
1963	804
1964	739
1965	600
1966	692
1967	936
1968	671
1969	642
1970	820
1971	837
1972	1,325
1973	873
1974	950
1975	948
1976	716
1977	699
1978	855
1979	1,046
1980	886
1981	887
1982	912
1983	767
1984	951
1985	1,062
1986	942
1987	690
1988	677
1989	1,111
1990	880
1991	698
1992	741
1993	754
1994	1,057
1995	683
1996	1,653
1997	757
1998	873
1999	720
2000	740
2001	715
2002	933
2003	1,268
2004	1,081
2005	787
2006	802
2007	946
2008	967
2009	805
2010	669
2011	1,157
2012	723
2013	1,046
2014	707
2015	861
2016	772
2017	845
2018	1,364
2019	860
2020	891
2021	647
2022	789
2023	720
2024	745
2025	825

About this series

Source	United States Geological Survey — National Water Information System · US Government work — public domain
How the values came to exist	Derived Computed by Hydrionis
Period held	1913–2025
Completeness	100.0% of the periods in that span are held.
Continuity	Continuous: every year from 1913 to 2025 is held.
Inputs last read	2026-10-01 · when the records this was computed from were last read from their publishers
Calculation date	2026-08-24 · when the calculation method was last versioned, not a reading of any publisher
Redistribution	Permitted by the upstream licences
Commercial reuse	Permitted by the upstream licences. No Hydrionis access tier can widen this.
Methodology	How this was produced

Every gauge Hydrionis holds within this area

Gauges within the Cheat and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
CHEAT RIVER NEAR PARSONS, WV	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	376	1844–2026
BLACKWATER RIVER AT DAVIS, WV	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	347	1921–2026
BIG SANDY CREEK AT ROCKVILLE, WV	catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	332	1888–2026
CHEAT RIVER AT ROWLESBURG, WV	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	256	1844–2026
SHAVERS FORK AT PARSONS, WV	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	250	1888–2026
SHAVERS FORK AT BEMIS, WV	catchment area, annual maximum river flow	14	1918–2026

How these gauges were attached to this water

Assigned by the publisher to a numbered basin Every gauge here is assigned to this drainage area by its own publisher, which issues the area an official code — 05020004. A drainage area is not a river: it contains the tributaries as well as the main channel, and a gauge in it may be on any of them.

What each gauge’s link to this water rests on
Gauge	Evidence	Established
CHEAT RIVER NEAR PARSONS, WV	Stated by the publisher — USGS site service, huc_cd field — https://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/site/ ; named from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset 8-digit HU (Subbasin) layer — https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer/4	2026-10-02
BLACKWATER RIVER AT DAVIS, WV	Stated by the publisher — USGS site service, huc_cd field — https://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/site/ ; named from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset 8-digit HU (Subbasin) layer — https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer/4	2026-10-02
BIG SANDY CREEK AT ROCKVILLE, WV	Stated by the publisher — USGS site service, huc_cd field — https://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/site/ ; named from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset 8-digit HU (Subbasin) layer — https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer/4	2026-10-02
CHEAT RIVER AT ROWLESBURG, WV	Stated by the publisher — USGS site service, huc_cd field — https://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/site/ ; named from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset 8-digit HU (Subbasin) layer — https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer/4	2026-10-02
SHAVERS FORK AT PARSONS, WV	Stated by the publisher — USGS site service, huc_cd field — https://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/site/ ; named from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset 8-digit HU (Subbasin) layer — https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer/4	2026-10-02
SHAVERS FORK AT BEMIS, WV	Stated by the publisher — USGS site service, huc_cd field — https://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/site/ ; named from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset 8-digit HU (Subbasin) layer — https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer/4	2026-10-02

What this record holds

Hydrionis decides which waters get a page, and which of those are offered to search, from what is actually held rather than from how the page reads. Five signals are counted; this record has 5 of them, which makes it a full profile.

Information-gain signals held for this water body
Signal	Held	Counts
Gauges holding a real record	5	yes, 3 or more
Years spanned	183	yes, 20 or more
Values held	1,575	yes, 1000 or more
Distinct measurements	5	yes, 2 or more
Publishers measuring it	2	yes, 2 or more
Official identifiers	1	recorded, not counted

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Attribution and citation

Suggested citation for Hydrionis

Hydrionis (2026), Cheat gauge records, accessed 2026-10-05, hydrionis.com/waters/united-states-cheat/

Cite Hydrionis where you rely on values Hydrionis computed, on the method that produced them, or on the compilation itself. The underlying measurements remain the publishers’ and their attribution requirements apply to you directly.

Recommended, not required. Hydrionis does not claim rights over unmodified public data it relayed, and doing arithmetic on somebody else’s measurements does not make them Hydrionis’s. Cite the version and the access date: the Cheat gauge records changes as publishers release and as methods are revised, and a citation without both cannot be checked later. Full guidance is on cite and reuse.

None of the contributing licences requires attribution. Crediting the publishers is still good practice and they are listed above.

Where these figures come from

MeasuredHigh confidence2025-02-06

Source: USGS — National Water Information System, USGS site 03069500, annual peak streamflow. Licence: Open.

Method: The instantaneous maximum discharge of each water year as published by USGS, dated to the day it occurred. One value per October-to-September water year; where the publisher lists both a systematic and a historic peak for a year, the larger is the annual maximum. Values the publisher marks as maximum daily averages are not held here, because they are not instantaneous peaks. Values marked as bounded rather than measured are held as censored observations carrying the bound. Cubic feet per second are converted to cubic metres per second and the publisher unit is recorded alongside.

Rating curves are extrapolated at extreme discharges, so the largest values in a peak series carry the largest measurement uncertainty. Data from the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System, a work of the United States government and therefore in the public domain.

Retrieved 1 October 2026.