The monitoring network within this area

Hydrionis holds 1,547 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

1,547

Values held

1911–2026

Record spans

Gauges within the Middle Bear 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 BEAR RIVER AT ALEXANDER ID

The highest instantaneous discharge the publisher recorded in each year — a flood peak as measured, not a daily average of one. 1916–2020.

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	BEAR RIVER AT ALEXANDER ID (m³/s)
1916	61.4
1917	130
1918	39.6
1919	36.2
1920	43.0
1921	110
1922	130
1924	69.1
1958	61.4
1961	70.2
1962	66.0
1963	88.6
1964	49.3
1965	65.1
1966	75.3
1967	59.5
1968	62.0
1969	46.2
1970	45.6
1971	101
1972	67.1
1974	64.8
1976	59.5
1977	46.4
1978	56.4
1979	50.7
1980	66.0
1981	46.2
1982	53.8
2018	60.9
2019	41.9
2020	137

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	1916–2020
Completeness	30.5% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	6 separate periods inside 1916–2020 hold no value. The longest runs from 1983 to 2017 — 35 years with no reading. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1916 and is not continuous from it: 105 years separate the first value from the last, and 30% 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 BEAR RIVER AT ALEXANDER ID, as a depth

The year's flow spread over the land draining to this gauge, in millimetres — the same unit rainfall is measured in. 1912–2019.

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	BEAR RIVER AT ALEXANDER ID (mm)
1912	104
1914	122
1920	78.0
1921	95.0
1922	128
1923	128
1924	93.0
1925	72.0
1926	79.0
1927	65.0
1928	60.0
1929	56.0
1930	51.0
1931	41.0
1932	34.0
1933	38.0
1934	38.0
1935	32.0
1936	39.0
1937	35.0
1938	43.0
1939	40.0
1940	38.0
1941	36.0
1942	41.0
1943	49.0
1944	38.0
1945	39.0
1946	55.0
1947	67.0
1948	66.0
1949	61.0
1950	109
1951	106
1952	95.0
1953	59.0
1954	43.0
1955	41.0
1956	49.0
1957	58.0
1958	54.0
1959	39.0
1960	45.0
1961	42.0
1962	44.0
1963	42.0
1964	44.0
1965	74.0
1966	65.0
1967	67.0
1968	49.0
1969	59.0
1970	44.0
1971	125
1972	119
1973	83.0
1974	83.0
1975	87.0
1976	80.0
1977	49.0
1978	46.0
1979	44.0
1980	90.0
1981	47.0
1982	80.0
1983	164
1984	169
1985	100
1986	180
1987	57.0
1988	47.0
1989	42.0
1990	46.0
1991	38.0
1992	41.0
1993	39.0
1994	44.0
1995	39.0
1996	47.0
1997	104
1998	111
1999	102
2000	58.0
2001	45.0
2002	41.0
2003	38.0
2004	28.0
2005	40.0
2014	41.0
2015	42.0
2016	48.0
2017	78.0
2018	66.0
2019	49.0

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	1912–2019
Completeness	87.0% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	3 separate periods inside 1912–2019 hold no value. The longest runs from 2006 to 2013 — 8 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: 108 years separate the first value from the last, and 87% of the years between them are held. The span is not the record.
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.

1,228

Fullest snowpack recorded at Franklin Basin, in 2011 (mm of water)

344

Thinnest, in 1992 (mm of water)

April

Month the pack is usually at its fullest

June

Month the pack has gone by, in half of years

Peak snowpack at Franklin Basin

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	Franklin Basin (mm)
1981	346
1982	1,052
1983	983
1984	902
1985	774
1986	1,069
1987	406
1988	457
1989	732
1990	481
1991	571
1992	344
1993	898
1994	585
1995	815
1996	988
1997	958
1998	796
1999	952
2000	565
2001	359
2002	529
2003	507
2004	514
2005	692
2006	1,094
2007	463
2008	780
2009	798
2010	476
2011	1,228
2012	464
2013	466
2014	642
2015	497
2016	655
2017	1,086
2018	658
2019	692
2020	715
2021	493
2022	479
2023	1,141
2024	783
2025	664
2026	531

Read against the river

Franklin Basin and BEAR RIVER AT ALEXANDER ID both sit in this drainage area, and their records overlap by 39 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 Middle Bear and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
BEAR RIVER AT ALEXANDER ID	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	262	1911–2026
BEAR RIVER BELOW GRACE DAM, NEAR GRACE, ID	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	195	1926–2026

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 — 16010202. 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
BEAR RIVER AT ALEXANDER ID	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
BEAR RIVER BELOW GRACE DAM, NEAR GRACE, ID	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	116	yes, 20 or more
Values held	1,547	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), Middle Bear gauge records, accessed 2026-10-05, hydrionis.com/waters/united-states-middle-bear/

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 Middle Bear 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 confidence2020-07-22

Source: USGS — National Water Information System, USGS site 10079500, 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.