TEXAS BOARD OF WATER ENGINEERS H. A. Beckwith, Chairman A. P. Rollins, Member James S. Gileke, Member TEXAS INDEX OF SUBFACE WATEB BECORDS 1882-1951 DISCHARGE, SEDIMENT, CHEMICAL QUALITY, AND WATER TEMPERATURE Prepared cooperatively by the Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior under the direction of C. E. Ellsworth, District Ehgineer May 1952 CONTENTS Page Introduction . 0 .. 1 Explanation . .... 2 Arkansas River Basin . 5 Red River Basin. •. 6 Sabine River Basin •. 8 Neches River Basin •. 9 Trinity River Basin- . 11 San Jacinto River Basin* Ik Clear Creek Basin • . 15 Chocolate Bayou Basin, 15 Bastrop Bayou Basin. 15 Oyster Creek Basin .. 15 Brazos River Basin .. 16 Colorado River Basin . 20 Lavaca River Basin •. 25 Guadalupe River Basin. 26 Mission River Basin. 29 Nueces River Basin . 30 Rio Grande Basin .•. 32 Alphabetical list of streams and reservoirs. k2 TEXAS INDEX OF SUBFACE WATEB BECOBDS 1882-1951 DISCHARGE, SEDIMENT, CHEMICAL QUALITY, AND WATER TEMPERATURE INTRODUCTION The purpose of this report is to provide a convenient index of basic data on Texas streams and reservoirs during the years 1882 to 1951• Included are records of flow, stage, contents, temperature, chemical quality, and sediment loadD These records have been collected on a continuous or periodic basis at stations maintained by the UD S. Geological Survey, the Texas State Board of Water Engineers, and other agencies0 The first stream flow station in Texas was established by the Uo So Geological Survey on the Rio Grande at El Paso in 1889, A few miscellaneous records of stream flow were collected prior to that time0 In 1897 a systematic study was begun by the Uo So Geological Survey on some central Texas streams; however, not until 19159 when the Texas Legislature appropriated funds for stream measurement investigations by the Texas State Board of Water Engineers, was a substantial beginning made toward the systematic collection of stream flow records o In the same year the State Board of Water Engineers entered into an agreement with the U. S0 Geological Survey for cooperative investigations of the water resources of the State. These cooperative investigations have continued to date. In recent years, the State Board of Water Engineers and the Uo So Geological Survey have expanded investigations through coopera tion with the Corps of Engineers, Uo So Army; the Bureau of Reclamation, U. S. Department of Interior; the Soil Conservation Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture; and several River Authorities and other political subdivisions of the State of Texas. The Weather Bureau, Uo Se Department of Commerce, maintains a network of river stage stations for flood forecasting operations. Such stations common to the Weather Bureau and the U. So Geological Survey are maintained and operated jointly for the sake of efficiency and economy. At some of the stations, records of stage collected by the Weather Bureau extend beyond the period of discharge records collected by the Uo S, Geological Survey„ The index includes such Weather Bureau records even though they are published only in official publications of the Weather Bureau0 Subsequent to July 1931 the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, assumed the operation of all stream flow stations on the Rio Grande and near the mouth of its tributaries. Records collected by that agency are published in its annual series of Water Bulletins. These records are included in the index to provide information on this important river basine The Soil Conservation Service, Uo So Department of Agriculture, has maintained a cooperative sediment program with the State Board of Water Engineers for many years• Records collected under this program have been published by those agencies0 The Uo So Geological Survey is the principal Federal agency that collects and publishes basic data on stream flow, stage, chemical quality, water temperature, and reservoir content of Texas streams. These data, with few exceptions, have been published in Uo So Geological Survey publications and in special reports of the State Board of Water Engineers. Data contained in this report were compiled from official publica tions and files of the U. So Geological Survey, U. S. Soil Conservation Service, UG So Weather Bureau, International Boundary and Water Commission, and the State Board of Water Engineers. EXPLANATION The index lists the stations in downstream order adopted by the U. So Geological Survey in 1951 and shows graphically the periods for which records of stream flow, stage, chemical quality, water temperature, reservoir content, and sediment load are available. Station names are those given in the most recent publications. Parentheses around part of a station name indicate that the enclosed words were used in an earlier publication Breaks of less than twelve months in the periods of record are not shown. No attempt was made to identify partial years at the beginning or ending of a period of record but any year having a partial record was shown in the index0 No indication was made as to whether a record is continuous or periodic, or as to its accuracy. The primary intent is to show that certain types of records are available at the locations for the indicated periods. Surface water records listed herein are found in the files or in publications of the Uo S. Geological Survey, the International Boundary and Water Commission, the U. S. Weather Bureau, and the U. S. Geological Survey's cooperating agencies. Compilation of the index was made from Uo S0 Geological Survey's Surface Water district office files and the following publications. Index of Surface Water Records, U. S0 Geological Survey Circulars No0 112 and IV*„ Inventory of Published and Unpublished Chemical Analyses of Surface Waters in the Western United States; com- piled under auspices of Subcommittee on Hydrologic Data, Federal Inter-Agency River Basin Committee, October 19^8. Inventory of Published and Unpublished Sediment-Load Data in the United States, compiled under the aus pices of Subcommittee on Sedimentation, Federal Inter-Agency River Basin Committee, April 19^9. Flow of the Rio Grande and Tributary Contribution, International Boundary and Water Commission Water Bulletins No. 1-18. The Rio Grande portion of the index was corrected to 1950 in the El Paso Office of the International Boundary and Water Commission. U. S. Weather Bureau records were compiled from current lists sub mitted by the various district offices in this region. The Index was compiled under the direction of Co E. 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K 8 Red River, Prairie Dog Town Fork, near Canyon, Tex. 558? !iS 9 North Tule Creek at reservoir near Tulia, Tex. S£ 10 " 8 IS " £ Red River, Prairie Dog Town Fork, near Brice, Tex. PC 11 Mulberry Creek near Brice, Tex. 12 '35? Red River, Prairie Dog Town Fork, near Estelline, Tex. c D 9 13 Lake Childress near Childress, Tex. H IP n Garoesbeck Creek near Quanah, Tex. 15 IIS Wanderers Creek near Chillicothe, Tex. KKS 16 Wanderers Creek at Odell, Tex. H« 17 Salt Fork Red River near Clarendon, Tex. 18 - ii^ii F/lm Creek near Shamrock, Tex. Quitaque Creek near Quitaque, Tex. 19 Hlmmmii S»S? 20 Roaring Springs near Roaring Springs, Tex. 21 Pease River near Crowell, Tex. 22 Red River near Burkburnett, Tex. 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