The monitoring network within this area

Hydrionis holds 312 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

312

Values held

1921–2026

Record spans

Gauges within the Paint 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 Paint Creek near Bourneville OH

The highest instantaneous discharge the publisher recorded in each year — a flood peak as measured, not a daily average of one. 1921–2025.

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	Paint Creek near Bourneville OH (m³/s)
1921	906
1923	348
1925	459
1926	1,181
1927	597
1929	360
1931	490
1932	430
1933	1,362
1934	251
1935	753
1936	422
1937	1,407
1938	286
1939	626
1940	1,385
1941	177
1942	425
1943	1,294
1944	436
1945	1,475
1946	408
1947	583
1948	855
1949	580
1950	541
1952	445
1953	530
1954	314
1955	396
1956	340
1957	708
1958	646
1959	699
1960	408
1961	564
1962	504
1963	1,492
1964	1,611
1965	731
1966	368
1968	1,138
1969	251
1970	782
1971	388
1972	280
1973	269
1975	251
1976	281
1977	103
1978	306
1979	282
1980	205
1981	157
1982	218
1983	213
1984	199
1985	226
1987	181
1988	154
1989	292
1990	303
1992	205
1993	183
1994	371
1995	306
1996	238
1997	377
1998	208
1999	143
2000	326
2001	254
2002	219
2003	194
2004	273
2005	274
2006	182
2010	258
2011	445
2012	311
2013	159
2014	226
2015	270
2017	368
2018	260
2019	289
2020	306
2021	377
2022	411
2023	194
2024	174
2025	365

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	1921–2025
Completeness	87.6% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	11 separate periods inside 1921–2025 hold no value. The longest runs from 2007 to 2009 — 3 years with no reading. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1921 and is not continuous from it: 105 years separate the first value from the last, and 88% 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 Paint Creek near Greenfield OH, as a depth

The year's flow spread over the land draining to this gauge, in millimetres — the same unit rainfall is measured in. 1927–2024.

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	Paint Creek near Greenfield OH (mm)
1927	455
1928	302
1929	407
1930	208
1931	269
1932	275
1933	494
1934	89.0
1940	285
1941	100
1942	231
1943	332
1944	179
1945	455
1946	282
1947	394
1948	415
1949	381
1950	488
1951	445
1952	338
1953	111
1954	81.0
1955	206
1967	270
1968	397
1969	236
1970	261
1971	287
1972	458
1973	531
1974	407
1975	413
1976	201
1977	190
1978	432
1979	615
1980	398
1996	648
1997	376
1998	370
1999	181
2000	340
2001	443
2002	398
2003	516
2004	532
2005	510
2006	516
2007	406
2008	543
2009	313
2010	366
2013	366
2014	330
2015	446
2016	290
2017	541
2018	643
2019	596
2020	368
2021	366
2022	481
2023	267
2024	311

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	1927–2024
Completeness	66.3% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	4 separate periods inside 1927–2024 hold no value. The longest runs from 1981 to 1995 — 15 years with no reading. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1927 and is not continuous from it: 98 years separate the first value from the last, and 66% 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

Every gauge Hydrionis holds within this area

Gauges within the Paint and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
Paint Creek near Greenfield OH	catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	209	1926–2026
Paint Creek near Bourneville OH	catchment area, annual maximum river flow	103	1921–2026

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 — 05060003. 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
Paint Creek near Greenfield OH	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
Paint Creek near Bourneville OH	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 2 of them, which makes it a profile, not indexed.

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	312	no
Distinct measurements	4	yes, 2 or more
Publishers measuring it	1	no
Official identifiers	1	recorded, not counted

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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), Paint gauge records, accessed 2026-10-05, hydrionis.com/waters/united-states-paint/

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 Paint 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 confidence2025-04-06

Source: USGS — National Water Information System, USGS site 03232000, 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.