The monitoring network within this area

Hydrionis holds 2,216 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

2,216

Values held

1921–2026

Record spans

Gauges within the Little Humboldt 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 MARTIN CK NR PARADISE VALLEY, NV

The highest instantaneous discharge the publisher recorded in each year — a flood peak as measured, not a daily average of one. 1922–2025.

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.

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Underlying data
Period	MARTIN CK NR PARADISE VALLEY, NV (m³/s)
1922	7.79
1923	2.86
1924	2.10
1925	15.6
1926	6.23
1927	56.6
1929	2.32
1931	3.00
1932	11.9
1933	16.1
1935	6.85
1936	5.66
1937	6.99
1938	28.3
1939	9.34
1940	12.5
1941	10.2
1942	11.3
1943	255
1944	4.11
1945	42.5
1947	8.38
1948	5.69
1949	5.92
1950	7.42
1951	13.3
1952	27.0
1953	4.93
1954	5.01
1955	2.46
1956	34.0
1957	19.4
1958	54.9
1959	2.01
1960	7.50
1961	22.1
1962	22.9
1963	107
1964	5.21
1966	2.38
1967	15.9
1968	5.86
1969	44.2
1970	23.8
1971	18.6
1972	17.9
1973	39.1
1974	24.9
1975	68.8
1976	4.25
1977	5.75
1978	10.2
1979	12.6
1980	73.1
1981	4.30
1982	39.4
1983	42.5
1984	32.0
1985	5.47
1986	123
1987	3.34
1988	0.793
1989	31.7
1990	7.48
1991	8.16
1992	2.46
1993	58.3
1994	1.81
1995	32.6
1996	12.2
1997	71.9
1998	17.0
1999	14.9
2000	3.79
2001	1.81
2002	9.32
2003	3.74
2004	11.2
2005	16.5
2007	1.16
2008	5.55
2009	2.75
2010	4.02
2011	29.2
2012	2.78
2014	2.35
2015	2.75
2016	7.70
2017	65.7
2018	10.4
2019	18.3
2020	2.29
2021	2.63
2022	10.3
2023	46.7
2024	13.2
2025	18.6

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 exist	Measured
Period held	1922–2025
Completeness	93.3% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	7 separate periods inside 1922–2025 hold no value. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1922 and is not continuous from it: 104 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	2026-10-01
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 MARTIN CK NR PARADISE VALLEY, NV, as a depth

The year's flow spread over the land draining to this gauge, in millimetres — the same unit rainfall is measured in. 1922–2025.

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.

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Underlying data
Period	MARTIN CK NR PARADISE VALLEY, NV (mm)
1922	77.0
1923	38.0
1924	24.0
1925	46.0
1926	46.0
1927	99.0
1928	53.0
1929	31.0
1930	37.0
1931	15.0
1932	92.0
1933	36.0
1934	23.0
1935	58.0
1936	54.0
1937	45.0
1938	94.0
1939	42.0
1940	55.0
1941	66.0
1942	73.0
1943	123
1944	47.0
1945	92.0
1946	62.0
1947	34.0
1948	50.0
1949	47.0
1950	71.0
1951	74.0
1952	174
1953	50.0
1954	23.0
1955	35.0
1956	78.0
1957	81.0
1958	119
1959	28.0
1960	47.0
1961	29.0
1962	82.0
1963	53.0
1964	55.0
1965	83.0
1966	26.0
1967	82.0
1968	30.0
1969	129
1970	83.0
1971	96.0
1972	79.0
1973	59.0
1974	74.0
1975	92.0
1976	46.0
1977	27.0
1978	90.0
1979	54.0
1980	109
1981	36.0
1982	102
1983	212
1984	208
1985	52.0
1986	148
1987	31.0
1988	22.0
1989	97.0
1990	34.0
1991	43.0
1992	22.0
1993	99.0
1994	27.0
1995	134
1996	90.0
1997	107
1998	126
1999	87.0
2000	47.0
2001	25.0
2002	58.0
2003	36.0
2004	59.0
2005	89.0
2006	128
2007	26.0
2008	53.0
2009	36.0
2010	46.0
2011	167
2012	29.0
2013	29.0
2014	29.0
2015	25.0
2016	62.0
2017	168
2018	35.0
2019	100
2020	33.0
2021	32.0
2022	46.0
2023	123
2024	92.0
2025	57.0

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	1922–2025
Completeness	100.0% of the periods in that span are held.
Continuity	Continuous: every year from 1922 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

The snow standing above this water

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

615

Fullest snowpack recorded at Buckskin Lower, in 1984 (mm of water)

45

Thinnest, in 2015 (mm of water)

March

Month the pack is usually at its fullest

May

Month the pack has gone by, in half of years

Peak snowpack at Buckskin Lower

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	Buckskin Lower (mm)
1981	94.0
1982	246
1983	458
1984	615
1985	357
1986	228
1987	165
1988	109
1989	326
1990	172
1991	191
1992	86.0
1993	274
1994	148
1995	249
1996	237
1997	203
1998	312
1999	299
2000	249
2001	115
2002	327
2003	104
2004	357
2005	223
2006	340
2007	156
2008	284
2009	218
2010	215
2011	441
2012	158
2013	198
2014	114
2015	45.0
2016	299
2017	298
2018	121
2019	343
2020	280
2021	300
2022	195
2023	459
2024	317
2025	366
2026	71.0

Read against the river

Buckskin Lower and L HUMBOLDT RV NR PARADISE VALLEY, NV both sit in this drainage area, and their records overlap by 44 years. That is the span the two have in common, not a count of years both actually hold — either record may have gaps inside it. The two are shown separately rather than on one axis: millimetres of stored water and cubic metres per second are not commensurable, and a difference between them would mean nothing.

Being in the same drainage area does not put the snowpack upstream of the gauge. A subbasin is an area, and snow on one tributary can join the river below a gauge on another — so a weak relationship here may say more about which tributary was measured than about the snow.

Every gauge Hydrionis holds within this area

Gauges within the Little Humboldt and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
MARTIN CK NR PARADISE VALLEY, NV	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	346	1921–2026
L HUMBOLDT RV NR PARADISE VALLEY, NV	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	226	1922–2026

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 — 16040109. 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
MARTIN CK NR PARADISE VALLEY, NV	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
L HUMBOLDT RV NR PARADISE VALLEY, NV	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	106	yes, 20 or more
Values held	2,216	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 Humboldt gauge records, accessed 2026-10-05, hydrionis.com/waters/united-states-little-humboldt/

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 Humboldt 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 confidence2025-02-24

Source: USGS — National Water Information System, USGS site 10329500, 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.