The monitoring network within this area

Hydrionis holds 395 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

395

Values held

1908–2026

Record spans

Gauges within the Red Cedar 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 RED CEDAR RIVER AT MENOMONIE, WI

The highest instantaneous discharge the publisher recorded in each year — a flood peak as measured, not a daily average of one. 1908–2025.

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	RED CEDAR RIVER AT MENOMONIE, WI (m³/s)
1908	149
1913	245
1914	194
1915	174
1916	360
1917	235
1918	214
1919	170
1920	396
1921	128
1922	195
1923	230
1925	88.9
1926	311
1927	303
1928	253
1929	354
1930	171
1931	54.4
1932	195
1933	231
1934	1,133
1935	223
1936	422
1937	87.2
1938	651
1939	211
1940	204
1941	181
1942	691
1943	388
1944	159
1945	476
1946	300
1947	145
1948	194
1949	255
1950	348
1951	331
1952	340
1953	357
1954	360
1956	365
1957	134
1958	334
1959	382
1960	368
1961	334
1962	146
1963	317
1965	813
1967	940
1968	323
1969	264
1970	281
1971	192
1972	374
1973	328
1974	276
1975	343
1976	268
1977	253
1978	161
1979	292
1980	238
1981	145
1982	396
1983	379
1984	150
1985	159
1986	248
1987	129
1988	118
1989	476
1990	439
1991	357
1992	279
1993	209
1994	204
1995	354
1996	256
1997	345
1998	253
1999	118
2000	283
2001	348
2002	340
2003	309
2004	368
2005	538
2006	257
2007	259
2008	166
2009	91.7
2010	236
2011	152
2012	331
2013	257
2014	275
2015	189
2017	292
2018	210
2019	306
2020	328
2021	168
2022	148
2023	351
2024	140
2025	136

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	1908–2025
Completeness	92.4% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	6 separate periods inside 1908–2025 hold no value. The longest runs from 1909 to 1912 — 4 years with no reading. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1908 and is not continuous from it: 118 years separate the first value from the last, and 92% of the years between them are held. The span is not the record.
Last read from the publisher	2026-08-31
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 RED CEDAR RIVER AT MENOMONIE, WI, as a depth

The year's flow spread over the land draining to this gauge, in millimetres — the same unit rainfall is measured in. 1914–2025.

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	RED CEDAR RIVER AT MENOMONIE, WI (mm)
1914	255
1915	273
1916	306
1917	237
1918	210
1919	274
1920	310
1921	210
1922	287
1926	254
1927	251
1928	246
1929	203
1930	165
1931	134
1932	148
1933	173
1934	178
1935	247
1936	251
1937	165
1938	327
1939	238
1940	202
1941	237
1942	297
1943	308
1944	252
1945	318
1946	264
1947	215
1948	171
1949	182
1950	255
1951	312
1952	273
1953	235
1954	311
1955	185
1956	204
1957	178
1958	163
1959	191
1960	243
1961	224
1962	259
1963	198
1964	170
1965	309
1966	231
1967	293
1968	351
1969	257
1970	277
1971	319
1972	311
1973	341
1974	254
1975	303
1976	243
1977	244
1978	260
1979	311
1980	287
1981	263
1982	317
1983	345
1984	319
1985	310
1986	340
1987	212
1988	191
1989	241
1990	270
1991	342
1992	280
1993	296
1994	252
1995	309
1996	330
1997	293
1998	272
1999	252
2000	275
2001	366
2002	416
2003	307
2004	294
2005	277
2006	215
2007	210
2008	253
2009	178
2010	251
2011	285
2012	214
2013	256
2014	416
2015	364
2016	380
2017	365
2018	321
2019	451
2020	390
2021	284
2022	268
2023	318
2024	280
2025	260

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	1914–2025
Completeness	97.3% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	One period inside 1914–2025 holds no value: 1923 to 1925, 3 years with no reading. It is drawn as a break in the line and is never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1914 and is not continuous from it: 112 years separate the first value from the last, and 97% of the years between them are held. The span is not the record.
Last read from the publisher	2026-08-24
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 Red Cedar and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
RED CEDAR RIVER AT MENOMONIE, WI	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow	258	1908–2026
RED CEDAR RIVER NEAR COLFAX, WI	catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow	137	1914–2026

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 — 07050007. 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
RED CEDAR RIVER AT MENOMONIE, WI	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	2026-08-26
RED CEDAR RIVER NEAR COLFAX, WI	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	2026-08-26

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.

Information-gain signals held for this water body
Signal	Held	Counts
Gauges holding a real record	2	no
Years spanned	119	yes, 20 or more
Values held	395	no
Distinct measurements	4	yes, 2 or more
Publishers measuring it	2	yes, 2 or more
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), Red Cedar gauge records, accessed 2026-09-02, hydrionis.com/waters/united-states-red-cedar/

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 Red Cedar 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 confidence2025-06-29

Source: USGS — National Water Information System, USGS site 05369000, 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.