HCDN: Streamflow Data Set, 1874 - 1988
By J.R. Slack, Alan M. Lumb, and Jurate Maciunas Landwehr
USGS Water-Resources Investigations Report 93-4076


Station 05476500 DES MOINES RIVER AT ESTHERVILLE, IA


Description, qualifying comments, and acceptable water years.

Drainage area is 1372 sq.mi.                            Datum is 1247.55 ft.
Located in hydrologic unit 07100002 at Latitude: 43:23:51N  Longitude: 094:50:38W
Station is in the state of IA (county code 063) and serviced by the IA office.
Channel slope is 3.08 feet/mile
Stream length is 111.00 miles
Mean basin elevation is 1410.00 feet above National Geodetic Vertical Datum
Percent of contributing drainage area covered by 
   Storage: 3.25%     Lakes: 3.25%        Forests: 0.70%      Glaciers: N.A.%
Soil infiltration index is 3.20 inches
Annual precipitation is 28.50 inches
Precipitation intensity is 3.00 inches/24 hour (expected on the average once each two years)
January minimum temperature is 5.00 degrees Fahrenheit
Comments and qualifications on the data:
   Only monthly discharges should be used prior to December 1951 due to rough estimates of flow for missing record.


Daily and longer averages for 37 water years are acceptable (all years except partial years).
A water year with acceptable data is indicated by an asterisk in the time line, which spans 1874 through 1988.

                                                   Water year
1     1         1         1         1         1         1         1         1         1         1         1       1
8     8         8         9         9         9         9         9         9         9         9         9       9
7     8         9         0         1         2         3         4         5         6         7         8       8
4-----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5----0----5--8
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The streamflow data Daily values, monthly mean values, and yearly mean values of streamflow data are available in tablular form. Select the desired option from the list below.

The data tables do not have column heading for ease of reading into statistical programs. For a detailed description of the format of the data tables, select the corresponding file from the list below.

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