Title:

Steamboat Creek and tributaries instantaneous streamflow measurements

Author(s):

Gray, Debra S.; Blanchard, Joseph H.

Publication Year:

2021

How to Cite:

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Gray, Debra S.; Blanchard, Joseph H. 2021. Steamboat Creek and tributaries instantaneous streamflow measurements. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. Updated 10 January 2024. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2021-0103

Abstract:

In 1969, Oregon State University George Brown collected streamflow and water temperature data on Steamboat Creek and its tributaries. Steamboat Creek is a tributary to the North Umpqua River and provides habitat for wild anadromous Summer Steelhead, native Cutthroat Trout, and other flora and fauna. The North Umpqua drains the west slope of the Oregon Cascade mountains to the Pacific Ocean. Steamboat Creek has a U.S. Geological Survey stream gage 14316700 at the mouth, with a continuous record of stage (feet) and discharge (cubic feet per second) from 1956 to the present. This data publication includes data measured by Brown: summer, instantaneous discharge or streamflow (cubic feet per second) of Steamboat Creek and more than 8 tributaries. All measurements were at the mouths of tributaries and near tributary confluences on Steamboat Creek. In 1975, Umpqua National Forest personnel measured streamflow on one or more dates during the low flow summer months, continuing annually on up to nine stream sites until present (2023). Also provided are shapefiles containing watershed boundaries and site locations.

Keywords:

biota; Hydrology, watersheds, sedimentation; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; Monitoring; Natural Resource Management & Use; Water; discharge; logging; streamflow; temperature; watershed management; Oregon; Umpqua National Forest

Related publications:

• Brown, George W.; Swank, Gerald W.; Rothacher, Jack. 1971. Water temperature in the steamboat drainage. Research Paper. PNW-RP-119. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. 21 p. https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/26238
• Hostetler, S.W. 1991. Analysis and modeling of long-term stream temperatures on the Steamboat Creek Basin, Oregon: implication for land use and fish habitat. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 27(4): 637-647. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-1688.1991.tb01465.x
• Holaday, Steven A. 1992. Summertime water temperature trends in Steamboat Creek basin, Umpqua National Forest. Master's Thesis. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University.

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