Description, qualifying comments, and acceptable water years.
Drainage area is 1642 sq.mi. Datum is 469.38 ft.
Located in hydrologic unit 02070005 at Latitude: 38:54:50N Longitude: 078:12:40W
Station is in the state of VA (county code 187) and serviced by the VA office.
Channel slope is 7.73 feet/mile
Stream length is 145.00 miles
Mean basin elevation is 1600.00 feet above National Geodetic Vertical Datum
Percent of contributing drainage area covered by
Storage: 1.04% Lakes: N.A.% Forests: 50.00% Glaciers: N.A.%
Soil infiltration index is N.A. inches
Annual precipitation is 41.60 inches
Precipitation intensity is 3.45 inches/24 hour (expected on the average once each two years)
January minimum temperature is 24.10 degrees Fahrenheit
Comments and qualifications on the data:
Records are unsuitable for analysis at less than monthly resolution currently due to minor municipal withdrawal
upstream from gage and prior to 1960, due to diurnal fluctuations at low and medium stages induced by mills and
powerplants upstream. ME
Daily and longer averages for 58 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.
a. Table of daily data (201K text)
b. Table of monthly data
c. Table of annual data
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.
a. Format of the daily data table
b. Format of the monthly data table
c. Format of the yearly data table