The monitoring network within this area

Hydrionis holds 319 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.

Gauges

319

Values held

1909–2026

Record spans

Gauges within the Goose Lake huc8 subbasin

2 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 DREWS CREEK NEAR LAKEVIEW,OREG.

The highest instantaneous discharge the publisher recorded in each year — a flood peak as measured, not a daily average of one. 1909–1981.

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 (0 events)

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.

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Underlying data
Period	DREWS CREEK NEAR LAKEVIEW,OREG. (m³/s)
1909	77.3
1910	85.0
1911	45.3
1912	11.1
1913	11.8
1914	13.6
1915	12.5
1916	19.0
1917	23.4
1918	0.680
1919	6.51
1921	15.6
1922	5.38
1925	2.32
1926	1.10
1927	14.7
1928	12.1
1929	1.87
1930	1.61
1931	1.47
1932	2.55
1933	1.78
1934	1.22
1935	1.76
1936	13.2
1937	11.2
1938	30.6
1939	1.95
1940	20.0
1941	6.43
1942	12.4
1943	22.7
1944	2.35
1945	6.99
1946	21.8
1947	2.46
1948	3.74
1949	5.83
1950	5.78
1951	14.8
1952	33.4
1953	14.1
1954	15.2
1955	2.44
1956	28.9
1957	15.9
1958	28.6
1959	4.16
1960	3.79
1961	3.28
1962	2.72
1963	10.9
1964	3.14
1966	3.06
1967	18.8
1968	4.30
1969	25.7
1970	39.1
1971	21.5
1972	29.7
1974	32.0
1975	20.0
1976	2.80
1977	2.44
1978	4.33
1979	3.09
1980	8.27
1981	1.98

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	1909–1981
Completeness	93.2% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	4 separate periods inside 1909–1981 hold no value. The longest runs from 1923 to 1924 — 2 years with no reading. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1909 and is not continuous from it: 73 years separate the first value from the last, and 93% of the years between them are held. The span is not the record.
Last read from the publisher	2026-08-31
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 COTTONWOOD CREEK NEAR LAKEVIEW,OREG., as a depth

The year's flow spread over the land draining to this gauge, in millimetres — the same unit rainfall is measured in. 1909–1980.

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 (0 events)

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.

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Underlying data
Period	COTTONWOOD CREEK NEAR LAKEVIEW,OREG. (mm)
1909	443
1910	334
1911	398
1912	303
1913	232
1914	401
1915	180
1916	270
1917	358
1918	125
1925	217
1926	74.0
1927	417
1928	241
1929	81.0
1930	101
1931	23.0
1932	207
1933	80.0
1934	53.0
1939	94.0
1940	229
1941	162
1947	112
1948	204
1949	163
1950	224
1951	264
1952	359
1953	365
1954	245
1955	130
1956	572
1957	284
1958	396
1959	80.0
1960	161
1961	95.0
1962	201
1963	292
1964	169
1965	408
1966	155
1967	224
1968	85.0
1969	246
1970	316
1971	410
1972	327
1973	161
1974	350
1975	222
1976	120
1977	39.0
1978	194
1979	153
1980	222

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	1909–1980
Completeness	79.2% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	3 separate periods inside 1909–1980 hold no value. The longest runs from 1919 to 1924 — 6 years with no reading. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1909 and is not continuous from it: 72 years separate the first value from the last, and 79% of the years between them are held. The span is not the record.
Last read from the publisher	2026-08-24
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 Goose Lake and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
COTTONWOOD CREEK NEAR LAKEVIEW,OREG.	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow	161	1909–2026
DREWS CREEK NEAR LAKEVIEW,OREG.	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow	158	1909–2026

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 — 18020001. 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
COTTONWOOD CREEK NEAR LAKEVIEW,OREG.	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	2026-08-26
DREWS CREEK NEAR LAKEVIEW,OREG.	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	2026-08-26

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.

Information-gain signals held for this water body
Signal	Held	Counts
Gauges holding a real record	2	no
Years spanned	118	yes, 20 or more
Values held	319	no
Distinct measurements	4	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), Goose Lake gauge records, accessed 2026-09-02, hydrionis.com/waters/united-states-goose-lake/

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 Goose Lake 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 confidence1981-05-18

Source: USGS — National Water Information System, USGS site 11340500, 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 31 August 2026.