USGS Water-Year Summary 2024
07160500 SKELETON CREEK NEAR LOVELL, OK
LOCATION - Lat 36°03'36", long 97°35'05" referenced to North American Datum of 1927, in NW 1/4 SW 1/4 sec.01, T.18 N., R.4 W., Logan County, OK, Hydrologic Unit 11050002, on right bank downstream bridge abutment on State Highway 74, 2 mi upstream from Otter Creek, 2.8 mi east of Lovell, and at mile 14.6.
DRAINAGE AREA - 412 mi². 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 - WDR 2012: Drainage area.
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - October 1949 to September 1993, October 2001 to current year.
GAGE - Water-stage recorder. Datum of gage is 899.99 feet above NAVD of 1988 determined by GNSS Level II Survey using Alltera network with RTK Trimble R-12i tied to RM-5 by USGS personnel on 2/22/2023. Prior to 2/22/2023 the datum of the gage was 909.76 feet above NGVD29.
EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Peak Gage Height of 45.47 ft. on May 9,1993. The peak discharge of 75,200 cfs occurred on May 16, 1957.