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HUC8 subbasin

Paynes Creek-Sacramento River

2 monitoring stations within this area in United States, holding 431 values between 1879 and 2026. A United States federal hydrologic unit at the eight-digit subbasin level — a drainage area, not a river. Many subbasins take the name of the largest river within them, and the gauges below are anywhere inside the area, including on tributaries.

United StatesHUC8 subbasin

The monitoring network within this area

Hydrionis holds 431 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
431
Values held
1879–2026
Record spans
Gauges within the Paynes Creek-Sacramento River huc8 subbasin
2 monitoring points, positioned as the publisher records them.
Gauges within the Paynes Creek-Sacramento River huc8 subbasinSACRAMENTO R AB BEND BRIDGE NR RED BLUFF CA, SACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CASACRAMENTO R AB BEND BRIDGE NR RED BLUFF CASACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA

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 SACRAMENTO R AB BEND BRIDGE NR RED BLUFF CA
The highest instantaneous discharge the publisher recorded in each year — a flood peak as measured, not a daily average of one. 1879–2025.
Shading marks when something was recorded, not what caused the line.
Largest measured flow of each year at SACRAMENTO R AB BEND BRIDGE NR RED BLUFF CALargest measured flow of each year at SACRAMENTO R AB BEND BRIDGE NR RED BLUFF CA: SACRAMENTO R AB BEND BRIDGE NR RED BLUFF CA in m³/s, from 1879 to 2025.Hurricane Katrina water and sanitation collapse02,5005,0007,50010km³/s18791901191819371957197619952014

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.

EventTypePeriodStandingAuthority
Hurricane Katrina water and sanitation collapseFlood2005-08-29 – 2005-09-30Documented 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.
View the data behind this chart
Underlying data
PeriodSACRAMENTO R AB BEND BRIDGE NR RED BLUFF CA (m³/s)
18793,964
18817,051
18821,416
18831,586
18842,322
18853,398
18872,605
18882,407
18921,288
18944,248
18953,313
18963,653
18972,917
18981,206
18992,829
19003,681
19013,200
19024,701
19033,766
19045,862
19053,879
19064,248
19075,409
19082,764
19097,136
19114,106
19121,841
19132,141
19145,805
19156,768
19163,511
19175,324
19181,696
19193,879
19201,008
19213,596
19221,540
19241,894
19254,417
19263,115
19274,304
19284,332
19292,146
19311,133
19331,523
19341,838
19353,313
19363,766
19372,322
19391,368
19408,240
19414,446
19425,748
19434,587
19441,019
19451,688
19471,172
19481,866
19491,659
19501,461
19513,879
19532,676
19542,265
19563,256
19571,880
19583,936
19592,614
19602,197
19621,852
19632,172
19641,744
19662,246
19672,650
19681,812
19692,597
19704,446
1972909
19732,330
19743,766
19752,396
1976816
1977331
19783,002
19791,365
19802,945
19811,716
19834,304
19841,291
19863,794
19871,461
19881,161
1990997
1991705
19921,266
19933,256
1994547
19953,596
19961,979
19973,426
19982,792
19991,875
20002,178
20011,509
20021,863
20042,628
20052,158
20071,286
20081,263
2009937
20101,713
20112,755
20121,002
2014790
20161,886
20172,832
20181,501
20192,577
2021382
20233,256
20241,869
20253,228

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 existMeasured
Period held1879–2025
Completeness82.3% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps
  • 24 separate periods inside 1879–2025 hold no value. The longest runs from 1889 to 1891 — 3 years with no reading. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
ContinuityThe record begins in 1879 and is not continuous from it: 147 years separate the first value from the last, and 82% of the years between them are held. The span is not the record.
Last read from the publisher2026-08-31
RedistributionPermitted by the upstream licences
Commercial reusePermitted by the upstream licences. No Hydrionis access tier can widen this.
MethodologyHow 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 SACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA, as a depth
The year's flow spread over the land draining to this gauge, in millimetres — the same unit rainfall is measured in. 1903–1967.
Water leaving the catchment above SACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA, as a depthWater leaving the catchment above SACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA, as a depth: SACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA in mm, from 1903 to 1967.02505007501,000mm19031912192119301939194819571966SACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1903: 506 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1904: 834 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1905: 503 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1906: 622 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1907: 711 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1908: 390 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1909: 809 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1910: 430 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1911: 506 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1912: 358 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1913: 375 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1914: 685 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1915: 673 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1916: 529 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1917: 355 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1918: 274 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1919: 388 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1920: 319 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1921: 485 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1922: 343 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1923: 238 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1924: 175 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1925: 395 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1926: 353 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1927: 519 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1928: 362 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1929: 241 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1930: 269 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1931: 190 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1932: 225 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1933: 254 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1934: 237 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1935: 362 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1936: 347 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1937: 446 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1938: 645 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1939: 205 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1940: 625 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1941: 726 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1942: 527 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1943: 407 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1944: 186 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1945: 326 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1946: 353 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1947: 241 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1948: 380 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1949: 286 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1950: 345 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1951: 425 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1952: 544 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1953: 465 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1954: 497 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1955: 369 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1956: 557 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1957: 398 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1958: 745 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1959: 355 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1960: 328 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1961: 377 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1962: 371 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1963: 487 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1964: 403 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1965: 492 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1966: 477 mmSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA 1967: 537 mm

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.
View the data behind this chart
Underlying data
PeriodSACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CA (mm)
1903506
1904834
1905503
1906622
1907711
1908390
1909809
1910430
1911506
1912358
1913375
1914685
1915673
1916529
1917355
1918274
1919388
1920319
1921485
1922343
1923238
1924175
1925395
1926353
1927519
1928362
1929241
1930269
1931190
1932225
1933254
1934237
1935362
1936347
1937446
1938645
1939205
1940625
1941726
1942527
1943407
1944186
1945326
1946353
1947241
1948380
1949286
1950345
1951425
1952544
1953465
1954497
1955369
1956557
1957398
1958745
1959355
1960328
1961377
1962371
1963487
1964403
1965492
1966477
1967537

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 existDerived Computed by Hydrionis
Period held1903–1967
Completeness100.0% of the periods in that span are held.
ContinuityContinuous: every year from 1903 to 1967 is held.
Last read from the publisher2026-08-24
RedistributionPermitted by the upstream licences
Commercial reusePermitted by the upstream licences. No Hydrionis access tier can widen this.
MethodologyHow this was produced

Every gauge Hydrionis holds within this area

GaugeMeasuresValuesRecord
SACRAMENTO R AB BEND BRIDGE NR RED BLUFF CAburned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow2421879–2026
SACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CAburned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow1891879–2026

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 — 18020155. 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.

GaugeEvidenceEstablished
SACRAMENTO R AB BEND BRIDGE NR RED BLUFF CAStated 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/42026-08-26
SACRAMENTO R NR RED BLUFF CAStated 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/42026-08-26

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.

SignalHeldCounts
Gauges holding a real record2no
Years spanned148yes, 20 or more
Values held431no
Distinct measurements4yes, 2 or more
Publishers measuring it2yes, 2 or more
Official identifiers1recorded, not counted

Use this data

Use this data

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), Paynes Creek-Sacramento River gauge records, accessed 2026-09-02, hydrionis.com/waters/united-states-paynes-creek-sacramento-river/

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 Paynes Creek-Sacramento River 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 confidence2025-02-05

Source: USGS — National Water Information System, USGS site 11377100, 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.

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