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HUC8 subbasin

Cut Bank

2 monitoring stations within this area in United States, holding 282 values between 1905 and 2026. A United States federal hydrologic unit at the eight-digit subbasin level — a drainage area, not a river. Many subbasins take the name of the largest river within them, and the gauges below are anywhere inside the area, including on tributaries.

United StatesHUC8 subbasin

The monitoring network within this area

Hydrionis holds 282 values from 2 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.

2
Gauges
282
Values held
1905–2026
Record spans
Gauges within the Cut Bank huc8 subbasin
2 monitoring points, positioned as the publisher records them.
Gauges within the Cut Bank huc8 subbasinCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT, Cut Bank Creek near Browning MTCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MTCut Bank Creek near Browning MT

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 Cut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT
The highest instantaneous discharge the publisher recorded in each year — a flood peak as measured, not a daily average of one. 1906–2025.
Shading marks when something was recorded, not what caused the line.
Largest measured flow of each year at Cut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MTLargest measured flow of each year at Cut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT: Cut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT in m³/s, from 1906 to 2025.Hurricane Katrina water and sanitation collapse0200400m³/s19061917195519661984199420052023Cut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1906: 37.4 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1907: 173 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1908: 294 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1909: 67.4 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1910: 21.9 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1911: 72.5 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1912: 46.4 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1914: 15.4 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1915: 13.1 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1916: 73.6 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1917: 45.6 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1919: 25.6 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1920: 33.1 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1922: 37.1 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1923: 26.0 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1924: 56.9 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1951: 193 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1952: 62.6 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1953: 160 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1954: 93.7 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1955: 80.4 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1956: 48.7 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1957: 36.2 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1958: 62.3 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1959: 32.3 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1961: 30.0 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1962: 20.2 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1963: 29.2 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1964: 470 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1965: 75.9 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1966: 44.2 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1967: 99.4 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1968: 29.4 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1969: 65.1 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1970: 42.2 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1971: 30.6 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1972: 170 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1973: 24.6 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1975: 147 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1983: 18.5 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1984: 22.4 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1985: 49.8 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1986: 23.2 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1987: 47.3 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1988: 16.9 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1989: 146 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1990: 31.1 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1991: 102 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1992: 16.1 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1993: 42.8 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1994: 142 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1995: 144 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1996: 55.2 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1997: 65.4 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1998: 23.9 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1999: 22.5 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2001: 15.7 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2002: 286 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2003: 35.4 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2004: 15.7 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2005: 115 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2006: 50.7 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2015: 25.5 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2016: 15.0 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2017: 40.2 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2018: 61.7 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2019: 62.3 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2020: 36.8 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2021: 19.8 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2022: 57.8 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2023: 33.1 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2024: 15.3 m³/sCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2025: 11.6 m³/s

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.

EventTypePeriodStandingAuthority
Hurricane Katrina water and sanitation collapseFlood2005-08-29 – 2005-09-30Documented 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
PeriodCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT (m³/s)
190637.4
1907173
1908294
190967.4
191021.9
191172.5
191246.4
191415.4
191513.1
191673.6
191745.6
191925.6
192033.1
192237.1
192326.0
192456.9
1951193
195262.6
1953160
195493.7
195580.4
195648.7
195736.2
195862.3
195932.3
196130.0
196220.2
196329.2
1964470
196575.9
196644.2
196799.4
196829.4
196965.1
197042.2
197130.6
1972170
197324.6
1975147
198318.5
198422.4
198549.8
198623.2
198747.3
198816.9
1989146
199031.1
1991102
199216.1
199342.8
1994142
1995144
199655.2
199765.4
199823.9
199922.5
200115.7
2002286
200335.4
200415.7
2005115
200650.7
201525.5
201615.0
201740.2
201861.7
201962.3
202036.8
202119.8
202257.8
202333.1
202415.3
202511.6

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 existMeasured
Period held1906–2025
Completeness60.8% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps
  • 9 separate periods inside 1906–2025 hold no value. The longest runs from 1925 to 1950 — 26 years with no reading. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
ContinuityThe record begins in 1906 and is not continuous from it: 120 years separate the first value from the last, and 61% of the years between them are held. The span is not the record.
Last read from the publisher2026-10-01
RedistributionPermitted by the upstream licences
Commercial reusePermitted by the upstream licences. No Hydrionis access tier can widen this.
MethodologyHow 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 Cut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT, as a depth
The year's flow spread over the land draining to this gauge, in millimetres — the same unit rainfall is measured in. 1906–2024.
Shading marks when something was recorded, not what caused the line.
Water leaving the catchment above Cut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT, as a depthWater leaving the catchment above Cut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT, as a depth: Cut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT in mm, from 1906 to 2024.Hurricane Katrina water and sanitation collapse255075100mm19061915195619651983199220012020Cut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1906: 41.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1907: 90.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1908: 97.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1909: 89.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1910: 60.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1911: 68.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1912: 52.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1913: 68.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1914: 39.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1915: 40.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1916: 74.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1917: 86.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1918: 50.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1923: 56.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1952: 67.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1953: 90.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1954: 97.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1955: 70.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1956: 80.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1957: 60.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1958: 54.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1959: 81.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1960: 50.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1961: 45.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1962: 51.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1963: 43.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1964: 73.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1965: 81.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1966: 53.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1967: 87.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1968: 62.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1969: 74.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1970: 61.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1971: 66.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1972: 108 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1982: 57.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1983: 29.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1984: 28.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1985: 50.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1986: 56.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1987: 42.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1988: 27.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1989: 73.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1990: 61.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1991: 83.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1992: 33.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1993: 57.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1994: 49.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1995: 85.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1996: 75.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1997: 83.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1998: 47.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 1999: 52.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2000: 31.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2001: 24.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2002: 90.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2003: 39.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2004: 41.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2005: 51.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2015: 43.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2016: 40.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2018: 72.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2019: 63.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2020: 63.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2021: 39.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2022: 52.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2023: 37.0 mmCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT 2024: 28.0 mm

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.

EventTypePeriodStandingAuthority
Hurricane Katrina water and sanitation collapseFlood2005-08-29 – 2005-09-30Documented 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
PeriodCut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MT (mm)
190641.0
190790.0
190897.0
190989.0
191060.0
191168.0
191252.0
191368.0
191439.0
191540.0
191674.0
191786.0
191850.0
192356.0
195267.0
195390.0
195497.0
195570.0
195680.0
195760.0
195854.0
195981.0
196050.0
196145.0
196251.0
196343.0
196473.0
196581.0
196653.0
196787.0
196862.0
196974.0
197061.0
197166.0
1972108
198257.0
198329.0
198428.0
198550.0
198656.0
198742.0
198827.0
198973.0
199061.0
199183.0
199233.0
199357.0
199449.0
199585.0
199675.0
199783.0
199847.0
199952.0
200031.0
200124.0
200290.0
200339.0
200441.0
200551.0
201543.0
201640.0
201872.0
201963.0
202063.0
202139.0
202252.0
202337.0
202428.0

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 existDerived Computed by Hydrionis
Period held1906–2024
Completeness57.1% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps
  • 5 separate periods inside 1906–2024 hold no value. The longest runs from 1924 to 1951 — 28 years with no reading. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
ContinuityThe record begins in 1906 and is not continuous from it: 119 years separate the first value from the last, and 57% of the years between them are held. The span is not the record.
Inputs last read2026-10-01 · when the records this was computed from were last read from their publishers
Calculation date2026-08-24 · when the calculation method was last versioned, not a reading of any publisher
RedistributionPermitted by the upstream licences
Commercial reusePermitted by the upstream licences. No Hydrionis access tier can widen this.
MethodologyHow this was produced

Every gauge Hydrionis holds within this area

GaugeMeasuresValuesRecord
Cut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MTburned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year2511905–2026
Cut Bank Creek near Browning MTcatchment area, annual maximum river flow311918–2026

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 — 10030202. 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.

GaugeEvidenceEstablished
Cut Bank Creek at Cut Bank MTStated 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/42026-10-02
Cut Bank Creek near Browning MTStated 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/42026-10-02

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 3 of them, which makes it a full profile.

SignalHeldCounts
Gauges holding a real record1no
Years spanned122yes, 20 or more
Values held282no
Distinct measurements5yes, 2 or more
Publishers measuring it2yes, 2 or more
Official identifiers1recorded, not counted

Use this data

Use this data

No bulk download is offered here, which is a licence position rather than a product one: at least one contributing publisher does not permit redistribution. The values can be read on the page, cited, and pointed to at source.

Attribution and citation

Suggested citation for Hydrionis

Hydrionis (2026), Cut Bank gauge records, accessed 2026-10-05, hydrionis.com/waters/united-states-cut-bank/

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 Cut Bank 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 confidence2025-06-02

Source: USGS — National Water Information System, USGS site 06099000, 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.

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