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Water year 2023: 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30

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USGS Water-Year Summary 2023

07316000 RED RIVER NEAR GAINESVILLE, TX

LOCATION - Lat 33°43'40", long 97°09'35" referenced to North American Datum of 1927, in SW 1/4 sec.36, T.9 S., R.1 E., Love County, OK, Hydrologic Unit 11130201, on downstream right bank at end of bridge on Interstate 35, 0.2 mi downstream from Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railway Co. bridge, 5.0 mi downstream from Fish Creek, 4.5 mi southwest of Thackerville, OK, 7.0 mi north of Gainesville, and at mile 791.5.

DRAINAGE AREA - 30,728 mi² of which 7,903 mi² probably is noncontributing. from automated delineation using 10-meter National Elevation Dataset digital elevation model data dated 10/01/2006 and Watershed Boundary Dataset dated 10/01/2006, using Albers Equal-Area Projection, North American Datum 1983.

REVISIONS HISTORY - WSP 1211: Drainage area. WDR 2012: Drainage area.

SURFACE-WATER RECORDS

PERIOD OF RECORD - May 1936 to current year. Monthly discharge only for some periods, published in WSP 1311.

GAGE - Water-stage recorder. Datum of gage is 627.33ft above NAVD of 1988 determined by GNSS Level 4 Survey using Alltera network with RTK Trimble R-10 tied to RM-5 by USGS Personnel on 08/15/2020. Prior to 08/15/2020 datum of gage was 627.91ft above NGVD of 1929. Prior to Jan. 17, 1939, and Feb. 13, 1965 to Nov. 14, 1966, nonrecording gage at same site and datum.

REMARKS -

10/1/2022 - 09/30/2023: records rated Good.

Quality of data for other periods can be obtained by contacting the Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center.

Flow regulated by Lake Kemp (station 07312000 in Texas), since 1943 by Lake Altus (station 07302500 in Oklahoma), since 1946 by Lake Kickapoo (station 07314000 in Texas), since 1967 by Lake Arrowhead (station 07314800 in Texas) and Moss Lake (station 07315950 in Texas), since 1978 by Waurika Lake (07313400 in Oklahoma). Lowest daily mean 24 ft³/s, also occurred Sept. 7-8, 2011.

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Maximum peak flow 265,000 ft³/s on May 31, 1987. Maximum peak stage 42.05 ft on June 19, 2015.

WATER-QUALITY RECORDS

PERIOD OF RECORD - October 1994 to 2007 and 2009. October 2009 to September 30, 2011 (discontinued).