The monitoring network within this area

Hydrionis holds 3,174 values from 4 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.

4

Gauges

3,174

Values held

1906–2026

Record spans

Gauges within the Upper Wind huc8 subbasin

4 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 WIND RIVER AT RIVERTON, WY

The highest instantaneous discharge the publisher recorded in each year — a flood peak as measured, not a daily average of one. 1906–2024.

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	WIND RIVER AT RIVERTON, WY (m³/s)
1906	348
1908	249
1911	314
1912	255
1913	309
1914	249
1915	156
1916	219
1917	270
1918	263
1919	64.6
1920	249
1921	345
1922	208
1923	323
1924	237
1925	252
1926	129
1927	266
1928	309
1929	134
1930	255
1931	220
1932	249
1933	269
1934	156
1935	377
1936	163
1937	183
1938	111
1939	121
1940	120
1941	155
1942	187
1943	187
1944	206
1945	172
1946	112
1947	238
1948	171
1949	138
1950	135
1951	217
1952	163
1953	218
1954	156
1955	77.0
1956	232
1957	270
1958	191
1959	117
1960	56.1
1961	124
1962	189
1963	256
1964	164
1965	212
1966	74.2
1967	270
1968	127
1969	113
1970	133
1971	266
1972	217
1973	151
1974	223
1975	212
1976	122
1977	50.7
1978	156
1979	127
1980	158
1981	220
1982	164
1983	199
1984	114
1985	60.3
1986	207
1987	76.2
1988	60.3
1989	112
1990	70.2
1991	240
1992	81.3
1993	93.7
1994	67.7
1995	216
1996	180
1997	286
1998	174
1999	255
2000	62.3
2001	26.2
2002	74.8
2003	123
2004	78.7
2005	176
2006	58.3
2007	49.6
2008	105
2009	174
2010	180
2011	317
2012	83.5
2013	60.6
2014	180
2015	221
2016	149
2017	334
2018	275
2019	178
2020	181
2021	121
2022	245
2023	272
2024	120

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	1906–2024
Completeness	97.5% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	2 separate periods inside 1906–2024 hold no value. The longest runs from 1909 to 1910 — 2 years with no reading. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1906 and is not continuous from it: 119 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	2026-10-01
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 WIND RIVER AT RIVERTON, WY, as a depth

The year's flow spread over the land draining to this gauge, in millimetres — the same unit rainfall is measured in. 1913–2024.

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	WIND RIVER AT RIVERTON, WY (mm)
1913	241
1915	163
1916	196
1919	87.0
1920	203
1921	200
1922	191
1923	225
1924	188
1925	211
1926	146
1927	229
1930	185
1931	126
1932	149
1933	141
1934	78.0
1935	138
1936	144
1937	127
1938	122
1939	80.0
1940	65.0
1941	134
1942	135
1943	190
1944	148
1945	143
1946	108
1947	190
1948	133
1949	125
1950	147
1951	189
1952	106
1953	81.0
1954	92.0
1955	48.0
1956	146
1957	171
1958	93.0
1959	69.0
1960	36.0
1961	62.0
1962	120
1963	108
1964	94.0
1965	170
1966	52.0
1967	165
1968	94.0
1969	75.0
1970	62.0
1971	173
1972	142
1973	88.0
1974	119
1975	114
1976	101
1977	33.0
1978	110
1979	67.0
1980	92.0
1981	54.0
1982	116
1983	130
1984	86.0
1985	46.0
1986	119
1987	55.0
1988	28.0
1989	59.0
1990	53.0
1991	112
1992	38.0
1993	68.0
1994	31.0
1995	121
1996	101
1997	146
1998	110
1999	138
2000	34.0
2001	23.0
2002	36.0
2003	46.0
2004	37.0
2005	69.0
2006	36.0
2007	24.0
2008	62.0
2009	115
2010	78.0
2011	138
2012	42.0
2013	50.0
2014	128
2015	105
2016	83.0
2017	206
2018	155
2019	94.0
2020	72.0
2021	54.0
2022	74.0
2023	137
2024	49.0

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	1913–2024
Completeness	95.5% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	3 separate periods inside 1913–2024 hold no value. The longest runs from 1917 to 1918 — 2 years with no reading. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1913 and is not continuous from it: 112 years separate the first value from the last, and 96% 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

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

480

Fullest snowpack recorded at Little Warm, in 2017 (mm of water)

175

Thinnest, in 2004 (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 Little Warm

Water years 1979–2026. 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	Little Warm (mm)
1979	238
1980	275
1981	206
1982	382
1983	307
1984	299
1985	231
1986	424
1987	255
1988	211
1989	306
1990	226
1991	303
1992	180
1993	267
1994	199
1995	367
1996	411
1997	473
1998	305
1999	409
2000	250
2001	204
2002	244
2003	232
2004	175
2005	199
2006	213
2007	207
2008	271
2009	319
2010	211
2011	414
2012	208
2013	245
2014	363
2015	224
2016	215
2017	480
2018	429
2019	242
2020	325
2021	236
2022	277
2023	285
2024	246
2025	252
2026	230

Read against the river

Little Warm and Bull Lake Creek near Lenore, WY both sit in this drainage area, and their records overlap by 38 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 Wind and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
WIND RIVER AT RIVERTON, WY	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	367	1906–2026
Bull Lake Creek near Lenore, WY	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	327	1918–2026
WILLOW CREEK NEAR CROWHEART, WY	catchment area, annual maximum river flow	39	1909–2026
DRY CREEK NEAR BURRIS, WY	catchment area, annual maximum river flow	37	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 — 10080001. 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
WIND RIVER AT RIVERTON, WY	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
Bull Lake Creek near Lenore, WY	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
WILLOW CREEK NEAR CROWHEART, WY	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
DRY CREEK NEAR BURRIS, WY	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	121	yes, 20 or more
Values held	3,174	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 Wind gauge records, accessed 2026-10-05, hydrionis.com/waters/united-states-upper-wind/

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 Wind 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 confidence2024-06-08

Source: USGS — National Water Information System, USGS site 06228000, 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.