The monitoring network within this area

Hydrionis holds 2,216 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

2,216

Values held

1901–2026

Record spans

Gauges within the Upper White 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 WHITE RIVER NEAR MEEKER, CO.

The highest instantaneous discharge the publisher recorded in each year — a flood peak as measured, not a daily average of one. 1901–2025.

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.

View the data behind this chart

Underlying data
Period	WHITE RIVER NEAR MEEKER, CO. (m³/s)
1901	142
1910	87.2
1911	105
1912	136
1913	66.5
1914	98.8
1915	50.4
1916	82.7
1917	140
1918	110
1919	58.9
1920	120
1921	180
1922	83.3
1923	82.7
1924	101
1925	69.9
1926	83.8
1927	80.1
1928	103
1929	129
1930	88.1
1931	56.9
1932	88.9
1933	102
1934	34.0
1935	97.7
1936	85.8
1937	65.1
1938	93.2
1939	58.3
1940	77.6
1941	116
1942	120
1943	64.0
1944	78.4
1945	86.9
1946	68.0
1947	102
1948	99.4
1949	127
1950	98.0
1951	89.5
1952	147
1953	123
1954	59.7
1955	69.9
1956	88.3
1957	148
1958	123
1959	81.0
1960	75.0
1961	59.5
1962	118
1963	63.4
1964	86.9
1965	114
1966	50.4
1967	80.1
1968	104
1969	73.1
1970	114
1971	85.5
1972	89.2
1973	111
1974	97.7
1975	120
1976	86.9
1977	26.3
1978	110
1979	140
1980	89.8
1981	54.4
1982	81.0
1983	190
1984	197
1985	144
1986	129
1987	61.2
1988	77.0
1989	43.0
1990	55.5
1991	72.2
1992	47.9
1993	113
1994	45.9
1995	150
1996	100.0
1997	116
1998	103
1999	90.3
2000	93.7
2001	72.8
2002	29.2
2003	116
2004	50.4
2005	97.4
2006	89.5
2007	54.4
2008	104
2009	104
2010	104
2011	168
2012	32.8
2013	54.7
2014	103
2015	75.9
2016	73.1
2017	70.5
2018	53.2
2019	136
2020	63.1
2021	31.7
2022	57.5
2023	100.0
2024	78.7
2025	36.5

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	1901–2025
Completeness	93.6% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	One period inside 1901–2025 holds no value: 1902 to 1909, 8 years with no reading. It is drawn as a break in the line and is never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1901 and is not continuous from it: 125 years separate the first value from the last, and 94% 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 WHITE RIVER NEAR MEEKER, CO., as a depth

The year's flow spread over the land draining to this gauge, in millimetres — the same unit rainfall is measured in. 1910–2025.

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.

View the data behind this chart

Underlying data
Period	WHITE RIVER NEAR MEEKER, CO. (mm)
1910	250
1911	277
1912	352
1913	227
1914	305
1915	215
1916	307
1917	370
1918	294
1919	228
1920	370
1921	442
1922	298
1923	302
1924	260
1925	290
1926	313
1927	319
1928	386
1929	440
1930	298
1931	219
1932	344
1933	299
1934	144
1935	229
1936	264
1937	206
1938	317
1939	231
1940	227
1941	289
1942	292
1943	233
1944	250
1945	295
1946	225
1947	354
1948	283
1949	330
1950	266
1951	277
1952	388
1953	275
1954	187
1955	215
1956	246
1957	438
1958	327
1959	248
1960	240
1961	212
1962	348
1963	189
1964	247
1965	324
1966	171
1967	213
1968	262
1969	265
1970	312
1971	300
1972	250
1973	304
1974	286
1975	309
1976	246
1977	117
1978	314
1979	340
1980	273
1981	175
1982	308
1983	402
1984	484
1985	416
1986	418
1987	248
1988	254
1989	203
1990	163
1991	232
1992	185
1993	329
1994	164
1995	386
1996	309
1997	399
1998	379
1999	295
2000	234
2001	236
2002	130
2003	234
2004	193
2005	283
2006	302
2007	214
2008	306
2009	291
2010	238
2011	459
2012	158
2013	186
2014	304
2015	285
2016	257
2017	226
2018	166
2019	340
2020	193
2021	135
2022	185
2023	336
2024	264
2025	165

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	1910–2025
Completeness	100.0% of the periods in that span are held.
Continuity	Continuous: every year from 1910 to 2025 is held.
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

3 automated snow stations sit inside this drainage area, weighing the snowpack rather than measuring how deep it is.

730

Fullest snowpack recorded at Burro Mountain, in 1997 (mm of water)

147

Thinnest, in 2026 (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 Burro Mountain

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	Burro Mountain (mm)
1981	280
1982	570
1983	623
1984	678
1985	501
1986	647
1987	379
1988	456
1989	437
1990	240
1991	507
1992	429
1993	655
1994	365
1995	555
1996	592
1997	730
1998	628
1999	385
2000	358
2001	321
2002	285
2003	348
2004	304
2005	341
2006	411
2007	301
2008	463
2009	397
2010	352
2011	531
2012	253
2013	309
2014	373
2015	293
2016	340
2017	274
2018	246
2019	419
2020	314
2021	287
2022	286
2023	523
2024	343
2025	324
2026	147

Read against the river

Burro Mountain and NORTH FORK WHITE RIVER AT BUFORD, CO both sit in this drainage area, and their records overlap by 19 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 White and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
WHITE RIVER NEAR MEEKER, CO.	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	386	1901–2026
NORTH FORK WHITE RIVER AT BUFORD, CO	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	195	1910–2026
SOUTH FORK WHITE RIVER AT BUFORD, CO.	catchment area, annual maximum river flow	47	1920–2026
SOUTH FORK WHITE RIVER NEAR BUFORD, CO.	catchment area, annual maximum river flow	35	1906–2026
NORTH FORK WHITE RIVER NEAR BUFORD, CO.	catchment area, annual maximum river flow	18	1957–2026

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 — 14050005. 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
WHITE RIVER NEAR MEEKER, CO.	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
NORTH FORK WHITE RIVER AT BUFORD, CO	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
SOUTH FORK WHITE RIVER AT BUFORD, CO.	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
SOUTH FORK WHITE RIVER NEAR BUFORD, CO.	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
NORTH FORK WHITE RIVER NEAR BUFORD, CO.	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	126	yes, 20 or more
Values held	2,216	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), Upper White gauge records, accessed 2026-10-05, hydrionis.com/waters/united-states-upper-white/

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 White 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 confidence2025-05-14

Source: USGS — National Water Information System, USGS site 09304500, 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.