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[!] Over the next year, the USGS Pennsylvania Water Science Center will be updating the geodetic vertical elevation (gage datum) for many locations. Click HERE for additional information including a current list of streamgages with upcoming datum changes. This update in gage datum does not affect the location of the streamgage, nor the observed local gage height or discharge recorded at the streamgage.

USGS 03009680 Potato Creek at Smethport, PA

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STATION.--03009680 POTATO CREEK AT SMETHPORT, PA
LOCATION.--Lat 41`48'35", long 78`25'50", McKean County, Hydrologic Unit 05010001, on left bank 30 ft upstream from U.S. Highway 6 at east borough limits of Smethport, and 500 ft downstream from Marvin Creek.
DRAINAGE AREA.--160 square miles.
PERIOD OF RECORD.--October 1974 to 1995.
GAGE.--Water-stage recorder. Datum of gage is 1,454.84 ft above sea level.
REMARKS.--Landline and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers satellite telemeter at station.
EXTREMES OUTSIDE PERIOD OF RECORD.--Flood of June 22, 1972 reached a stage of 15.54 ft, discharge, 12,800 ft3/s, on basis of contracted-opening measurement of peak flow.
COOPERATION.--Funding for the operation of this station is provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Available Parameters Period of Record
  
1974-10-01  1995-09-30







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*** There are no data available on the Waterdata system for the time period specified,
    although data may be available in the files of the local USGS office operating the station.