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If you no lon~rer need this publication write to the Geological Survey in Washington for an official mailing label to use in returning it UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR • INDEX TO RIVER SURVEYS MADE BY THE I• UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND OTHER AGENCIES REVISED TO JULY 1, 1947 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WATER-SUPPLY PAPER 995 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR J. A. Krug, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY W. E. •Wrather, Director Water-Supply Paper 995 INDEX TO RIVER SURVEYS MADE BY THR UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND OTHER AGENCIES REVISED TO JULY 1, 1947 BY _BENJAMIN E. JONES and RANDOLPH 0. HELLAND UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1948 Ji', r s'lle bv the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washinglnu 25, D. C. Pr-ice 75 cents CONTENTS Page Introduction _____________________________________________________ _ 1 Alabama---------------------------------------------------------Alaska __________________________________________________________ _ 4 4 Arizona--------------------------------------------------------- 5 Arkansas-------------------------------------------------------- 11 12 California--------------------------------------------------------Colorado ________________________________________________________ _ 23 Connecticut------------------------------------------------------- 30 I>elaware ________________________________________________________ _ 30 I>istrict of Columbia ______________________________________________ _ 30 Florida __________________________________________________________ _ 30 Georgia _________________________________________________________ _ 30 Hawaii __________________________________________________________ _ 34 Idaho------------------------------------------------~----------- 34 Illinois __________________________________________________________ _ 46 Indiana _________________________________________________________ _ 49 Iowa ____________________________________________________________ _ 49 lCansas __________________________________________________________ _ 50 lCentuckY-------------------------------------------------------- 50 Louisiana ________________________________________________________ _ 50 ~aine ___________________________________________________________ _ 50 ~aryland _______________________________________________________ _ 54 ~assachusetts ___________________________________________________ _ 55 ~ichigan ________________________________________________________ _ 56 ~innesota _______________________________________________________ _ 56 ~ississippi _______________________________________________________ _ 59 ~issouri _________________________________________________________ _ 59 ~ontana ________________________________________________________ _ 60 ~ebraska--------------------------------------------------------~ 64 ~evada _________________________________________________________ _ 6'5 ~ewiiampshire __________________________________________________ _ 68 ~ewJerseY------------------------------------------------------~ 68 ~ew ~exico _____________________________________________________ _ 68 ·~ewYork _______________________________________________________ _ 71 North Carolina ___________________________________________________ _ 75 North I>akota---------------------------------------~------------- 77 Ohio ____________________________________________________________ _ 78 Oklahoma _______________________________________________________ _ 78 Oregon __________________________________________________________ _ 78 Pennsylvania ___________ ·- ______________________________________ - __ 94 Rhode Island ____________________________________________________ _ 97 South Carolina ___________________________________________________ _ 97 South I>akota ____________________________________________________ _ 98 Tennessee ___________ ~-------------------------------------------- 98 III IV CONTENTS Page Texas____________________________________________________________ 99 1Jtah----------------------------------··-------------------------- 102 Vermont_________________________________________________________ 110 Virginia__________________________________________________________ 111 Washington ____________________________________________ .. _____ .. ____ 112 West Virginia _____ .. _______________________________________________ 129 Wisconsin ______________________________________________________ .. _ 130 Wyoming ________ .. ______________________________________ .. ___ .. _ __ _ _ 131 Index---------------------------------------·--------------------- 137 ILLUSTRATIONS Page PLATE 1. Map showing areas covered by topographic surveys made by the Geological Survey prior to .July 1, 1947 _________________ In pocket 2. Map of the 1Jnited States sho,•.ring drainage areas and index n u m hers_ __ _ __ __ _ _ __ __ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ __ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ In poe ket INDEX TO RIVER SURVEYS MADE BY THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND OTHER AGENCIES REVISED TO JuLY l, 1947 By BENJAl\HN E. JoNES and RANDOLPH 0. HELLAND INTRODUCTION The descriptive list of surveys of rivers in the United States issued by the United States Geological Survey in 1926 as Water-Supply Paper 558 cmnprised surveys by the Ge.ological Survey and other Fed eral bureaus and by State, semiofficial, and private agencies. Since then many additional river surveys, most of them now availabie in published sheets, have been completed by the Geologieal Survey, and tour supplemental lists deseribing the1n have been issued in miineo graphed form. The first supplement was compiled by B. E. Jones in 1!J34, the seeoncl by R. 0. Helland and D. M. Paul in 1938, the third by R. 0. Helland in 1940, and the fourth by L. L. Young and N. J. Tubbs in 1944. The present cmnpilation adds to the preliminary in dex the material issued in the supplem.ents and later information con cerning revisions and availability of 1naps. This eompilation substantially cmnpletes the reeorcl of river surveys by the Geological Survey prior to July 1, 1947, but it is l.wt intended as a con1plete index of those made by other agencies. Outstanding among such are the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army, the Bureau of Reclamation of the Departlnent of the Interior, and anum ber of State agencies. Many States have assembled and published valuable information on &treams and lakes within their boundaries; their contour maps were prepared on various scales and in varying detail. Information con cerning 1naps published by a State agency can usually be obtained by applying to the State engineer. · River surveys by the Geological Survey consist essentially of a plane table traverse of the stream, the topography adjacent to the stream ehannel being depicted by contour lines. Topography is sketched in the field and is based on altitudes and distances obtained by the alidade and stadia rod. Except in earlier river surveys, topography is gen erally carried to an elevation sufficiently high above the water surface 1 2 INDEX TO RIVER SURVEYS to include the area of proposed reservoir sites, possible canal or conduit locations, and other structures relating to water utilization. The standard scales of river surveys are 1:31,680 and 1:24,000 and the contour intervals in general use are 20 feet on land and 5 feet on water. Surveys made by the United States Geological Survey ar~ usually pub lished by this agency, only a very few having been published by other agencies. All of the maps described in this index have been published by the United States Geological Survey unless otherwise stated in the description of the map. Most of the river surveys of the Geological Survey are now available in printed sheets 22 by 28 inches, currently priced at 10 cents each. Not all are available, however, as the stock of a map may be exhausted at any time, and reprints are not always made. But if the printed sheet is not obtainable, a photostatic reproduction or blueprint can usually be secured, though the cost of reproduction is higher than the cost of the printed sheet. Any of the maps described may be seen at the main office of the Geological Survey, Federal Works Building, Eighteenth and F Streets NW., Washington, D. C., and many of them at branch office-s in the States in which the surveys were made. Many of the rivers and smaller streams which have not been sur veyed independently are shown on the standard topographic maps of the Geological Survey in sufficient detail to afford much valuable in formation. The areas covered prior to July 1, 1947, and the scale employed for each area, are shown on plate 1. Inquiries regarding availability of maps should be addressed to the Director, United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, Washington 25, D. C. In this compilation the surveys have been arranged by States, and within the States by drainage basins. Tributary streams are indi cated by letters. A stream 1narked " (a)" is tributary to the last named stream not marked with a letter; a stream marked " (b)" is trib utary to the last-named strean1 marked " (a)", and so on. In the Great Basin, tributaries of Great Salt Lake. and of other independent drainage systems are indicated by " (a) ." The index number made up of letters and figures in parentheses refers to the drainage-area subdivisions shown on plate 2. The num bers refer to the major areas that form the great drainage basins of the country, as classified b'y the Geological Survey in its publications on stream flow and by theWeather Bureau in its meteorologic reports.