The monitoring network within this area

Hydrionis holds 1,681 values from 5 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.

5

Gauges

1,681

Values held

1911–2026

Record spans

Gauges within the Upper Salmon huc8 subbasin

5 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 SALMON RIVER BL YANKEE FORK NR CLAYTON ID

The highest instantaneous discharge the publisher recorded in each year — a flood peak as measured, not a daily average of one. 1923–2025.

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	SALMON RIVER BL YANKEE FORK NR CLAYTON ID (m³/s)
1923	139
1926	66.8
1927	227
1928	213
1929	97.4
1930	106
1932	152
1933	181
1934	83.3
1936	183
1937	74.2
1938	192
1939	74.2
1940	107
1941	95.4
1942	158
1943	204
1944	80.1
1945	92.0
1946	125
1947	172
1948	200
1949	139
1950	163
1951	202
1952	169
1953	162
1954	185
1955	144
1956	292
1957	217
1958	203
1959	135
1960	114
1961	110
1962	112
1963	135
1964	132
1965	233
1966	86.6
1967	176
1968	106
1969	165
1970	180
1971	212
1972	247
1973	93.7
1974	297
1975	170
1976	146
1977	38.8
1978	150
1980	136
1981	175
1982	225
1983	202
1984	171
1985	112
1986	242
1987	66.3
1988	83.0
1989	106
1990	75.0
1991	92.6
2001	68.0
2002	129
2003	204
2004	72.8
2005	102
2006	229
2007	93.2
2009	164
2010	228
2011	168
2012	200
2013	106
2014	145
2015	75.3
2016	114
2017	249
2018	154
2019	135
2020	112
2021	67.4
2022	198
2023	177
2024	115
2025	128

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	1923–2025
Completeness	85.4% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	6 separate periods inside 1923–2025 hold no value. The longest runs from 1992 to 2000 — 9 years with no reading. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1923 and is not continuous from it: 103 years separate the first value from the last, and 85% 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 SALMON RIVER BL YANKEE FORK NR CLAYTON 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. 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	SALMON RIVER BL YANKEE FORK NR CLAYTON ID (mm)
1922	470
1923	415
1924	245
1925	499
1926	251
1927	527
1928	479
1929	288
1930	344
1931	231
1932	404
1933	375
1934	309
1935	335
1936	415
1937	254
1938	497
1939	276
1940	358
1941	340
1942	407
1943	685
1944	343
1945	337
1946	461
1947	479
1948	469
1949	412
1950	531
1951	601
1952	498
1953	467
1954	502
1955	389
1956	678
1957	504
1958	492
1959	421
1960	352
1961	313
1962	411
1963	454
1964	417
1965	681
1966	310
1967	478
1968	365
1969	491
1970	491
1977	196
1978	466
1979	291
1980	439
1981	379
1982	631
1983	564
1984	509
1985	376
1986	548
1987	242
1988	277
1989	336
1990	302
2001	211
2002	328
2003	378
2004	305
2005	291
2006	496
2007	340
2008	426
2009	446
2010	392
2011	518
2012	514
2013	335
2014	458
2015	336
2016	432
2017	816
2018	496
2019	435
2020	344
2021	261
2022	415
2023	435
2024	349
2025	403

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	84.6% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	2 separate periods inside 1922–2025 hold no value. The longest runs from 1991 to 2000 — 10 years with no reading. 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 85% 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.

1,469

Fullest snowpack recorded at Vienna Mine, in 1982 (mm of water)

451

Thinnest, in 1987 (mm of water)

April

Month the pack is usually at its fullest

July

Month the pack has gone by, in half of years

Peak snowpack at Vienna Mine

Water years 1982–2026. 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.

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Underlying data
Period	Vienna Mine (mm)
1982	1,469
1983	1,248
1985	730
1986	1,166
1987	451
1988	650
1989	873
1990	574
1991	669
1992	542
1993	992
1994	484
1995	1,259
1996	1,176
1997	1,396
1998	815
1999	1,037
2000	784
2001	458
2002	802
2003	982
2004	680
2005	559
2006	1,194
2007	595
2008	903
2009	805
2010	622
2011	983
2012	931
2013	688
2014	880
2015	641
2016	882
2017	1,412
2018	834
2019	906
2020	652
2021	603
2022	750
2023	932
2024	718
2025	810
2026	806

Read against the river

Vienna Mine and VALLEY CREEK AT STANLEY ID both sit in this drainage area, and their records overlap by 43 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 Upper Salmon and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
SALMON RIVER BL YANKEE FORK NR CLAYTON ID	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	304	1921–2026
VALLEY CREEK AT STANLEY ID	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	268	1911–2026
YANKEE FORK SALMON RIVER NR CLAYTON ID	catchment area, annual maximum river flow	34	1922–2026
EF SALMON RIVER NR CLAYTON ID	catchment area, annual maximum river flow	11	1929–2026
BIG BOULDER CREEK NR CLAYTON ID	catchment area, annual maximum river flow	5	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 — 17060201. 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
SALMON RIVER BL YANKEE FORK NR CLAYTON 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
VALLEY CREEK AT STANLEY 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
YANKEE FORK SALMON RIVER NR CLAYTON 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
EF SALMON RIVER NR CLAYTON 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
BIG BOULDER CREEK NR CLAYTON 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	1,681	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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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), Upper Salmon gauge records, accessed 2026-10-05, hydrionis.com/waters/united-states-upper-salmon/

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 Upper Salmon 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 confidence2025-05-12

Source: USGS — National Water Information System, USGS site 13296500, 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.