The monitoring network within this area

Hydrionis holds 1,577 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

1,577

Values held

1912–2026

Record spans

Gauges within the Little Deschutes 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 LITTLE DESCHUTES RIVER NEAR LA PINE, OR

The highest instantaneous discharge the publisher recorded in each year — a flood peak as measured, not a daily average of one. 1912–1994.

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	LITTLE DESCHUTES RIVER NEAR LA PINE, OR (m³/s)
1912	21.5
1925	15.8
1926	7.08
1927	21.2
1928	13.1
1929	9.51
1931	8.69
1932	15.7
1933	22.4
1934	7.11
1935	11.6
1936	19.6
1937	12.3
1938	21.2
1939	11.9
1940	10.8
1941	5.58
1942	10.4
1943	27.9
1944	8.44
1945	12.0
1946	21.8
1947	10.8
1948	23.7
1949	24.7
1950	37.4
1951	24.9
1952	31.7
1953	21.5
1955	8.81
1956	37.4
1957	20.5
1958	20.8
1959	11.3
1960	16.2
1961	13.1
1962	14.8
1963	31.7
1964	13.4
1966	12.9
1967	16.1
1968	14.5
1969	16.8
1970	17.4
1971	25.7
1972	22.6
1974	28.6
1975	23.2
1976	15.7
1977	6.43
1979	9.97
1980	16.3
1982	30.0
1983	21.7
1984	23.5
1985	13.9
1986	20.7
1987	10.7
1989	18.8
1990	11.2
1991	9.32
1993	20.2
1994	5.24

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	1912–1994
Completeness	75.9% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	9 separate periods inside 1912–1994 hold no value. The longest runs from 1913 to 1924 — 12 years with no reading. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1912 and is not continuous from it: 83 years separate the first value from the last, and 76% 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 LITTLE DESCHUTES RIVER NEAR LA PINE, OR, as a depth

The year's flow spread over the land draining to this gauge, in millimetres — the same unit rainfall is measured in. 1925–1993.

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	LITTLE DESCHUTES RIVER NEAR LA PINE, OR (mm)
1925	73.0
1926	42.0
1927	81.0
1928	73.0
1929	52.0
1930	47.0
1931	25.0
1932	61.0
1933	68.0
1934	45.0
1935	60.0
1936	64.0
1937	59.0
1938	81.0
1939	59.0
1940	45.0
1941	35.0
1942	58.0
1943	112
1944	51.0
1945	56.0
1946	91.0
1947	68.0
1948	86.0
1949	96.0
1950	135
1951	138
1952	133
1953	146
1954	133
1955	74.0
1956	161
1957	120
1958	120
1959	72.0
1960	75.0
1961	76.0
1962	69.0
1963	77.0
1964	96.0
1965	120
1966	80.0
1967	72.0
1968	58.0
1969	70.0
1970	75.0
1971	121
1972	140
1973	67.0
1974	138
1975	114
1976	100
1977	52.0
1978	59.0
1979	65.0
1980	65.0
1981	57.0
1982	108
1983	113
1984	140
1985	83.0
1986	100
1987	57.0
1988	59.0
1989	68.0
1990	52.0
1991	49.0
1992	28.0
1993	80.0

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 exist	Derived Computed by Hydrionis
Period held	1925–1993
Completeness	100.0% of the periods in that span are held.
Continuity	Continuous: every year from 1925 to 1993 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

The snow standing above this water

2 automated snow stations sit inside this drainage area, weighing the snowpack rather than measuring how deep it is.

614

Fullest snowpack recorded at New Crescent Lake, in 1999 (mm of water)

31

Thinnest, in 1981 (mm of water)

February

Month the pack is usually at its fullest

May

Month the pack has gone by, in half of years

Peak snowpack at New Crescent Lake

Water years 1981–2026. Each point is the fullest month of that snow season.

A water year runs October to September and is named for the year it ends, so the snow of one winter stays in one point. The value is the fullest month, not the fullest day: a pack that peaked sharply mid-month reads lower here than a single measurement taken at the right moment would.

View the data behind this chart

Underlying data
Period	New Crescent Lake (mm)
1981	31.0
1982	387
1983	386
1984	337
1985	366
1986	379
1987	253
1988	115
1989	383
1990	209
1991	96.0
1992	105
1993	528
1994	148
1995	304
1996	257
1997	300
1998	319
1999	614
2000	362
2001	145
2002	424
2003	133
2004	408
2005	129
2006	562
2007	187
2008	490
2009	325
2010	221
2011	384
2012	189
2013	220
2014	99.0
2015	31.0
2016	349
2017	472
2018	90.0
2019	395
2020	295
2021	315
2022	245
2023	530
2024	403
2025	543
2026	110

Why the snow is not read against the river here

Peak snow water equivalent and Mean river flow, water year overlap for only 9 years at these subjects. A relationship read off a span that short is reading the weather of a few seasons.

Every gauge Hydrionis holds within this area

Gauges within the Little Deschutes and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
LITTLE DESCHUTES RIVER NEAR LA PINE, OR	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	246	1912–2026
CRESCENT CR AT CRESCENT LAKE NR CRESCENT,OREG.	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	228	1912–2026

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 — 17070302. 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
LITTLE DESCHUTES RIVER NEAR LA PINE, OR	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
CRESCENT CR AT CRESCENT LAKE NR CRESCENT,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	2026-10-02

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 4 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	115	yes, 20 or more
Values held	1,577	yes, 1000 or more
Distinct measurements	6	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), Little Deschutes gauge records, accessed 2026-10-05, hydrionis.com/waters/united-states-little-deschutes/

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 Little Deschutes 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 confidence1994-01-06

Source: USGS — National Water Information System, USGS site 14063000, 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.