USGS Water-Year Summary 2024

07175500 CANEY RIVER NEAR RAMONA, OK

LOCATION - Lat 36°30'32", long 95°50'30" referenced to North American Datum of 1927, in NE 1/4 NW 1/4 sec.05, T.23 N., R.14 E., Washington County, OK, Hydrologic Unit 11070106, on left bank near downstream abutment of county road bridge, 1 mi upstream from Buck Creek, 2.2 mi downstream from Double Creek, 4.5 mi southeast of Ramona, and at mile 32.0.

DRAINAGE AREA - 1,936 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 - WSP 1241: 1939. WDR 2012: Drainage area.

SURFACE-WATER RECORDS

PERIOD OF RECORD - September 1945 to current year. Monthly discharge only for some periods, published in WSP 1311. Previous reports have included Caney River near Collinsville from Oct. 1935 to Feb. 1939; this record has been separated from Ramona.

GAGE - Water-stage recorder. Datum of gage is 588.02 above NAVD 88. Current datum was determined by a GNSS Level III RTN survey Check in/Check out completed on NGS PID GG0969 with -.02/-.03 difference. Benchmark check in made on NGS PID DN4405 -.05 difference and tied to RM-11. Prior to 10/01/2021 datum in use was 586.43 feet above NGVD 1929. Sept. 1, 1945, to Feb. 15, 1946, nonrecording gage at present site and datum.

REMARKS -

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

All estimated periods are considered poor unless noted otherwise 

Annual mean since regulation by Hulah lake and before regulation by Copan Lake (water years 1951-1982) is 925 cubic feet per second.

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Zero flow was computed during the dates of Sept. 11-Nov. 3, 1956.