USGS Station 05331000
MISSISSIPPI RIVER AT ST. PAUL, MN
MISSISSIPPI RIVER MAIN STEM
Latitude: 44^56'40"; Longitude: 93^05'20"
Hydrologic Unit Code: 07010206
Drainage area: 36,800 square miles, approximately.
Location: In SE1/4NE1/4 sec.6, T.28 N., R.22 W., Ramsey County, on left bank in St. Paul, 300 ft upstream from Robert Street Bridge, 6 mi downstream from Minnesota River, and at mile 839.3 upstream from Ohio River.
Period of Record: Water year 1867-69, 1872-92 (annual maximums), March 1892 to current year (prior to 1901,fragmentary during some winters). Records prior to March 1892, published in the 19th Annual Report, Part 4,have been found to be unreliable and should not be used. Monthly discharge only for some periods, published in WSP 1308. Gage-height records (winter records incomplete) collected at same site since 1866 are contained in reports of U.S. Weather Bureau, War Department and Mississippi River Commission. WSP 875: 1938. WSP 895: 1939. WSP 1308: 1867(M). WSP 1508: 1897, 1898(M), 1903(M), 1917-18(M), 1928(M), 1929. WRD MN-74: 1973.
Gage Information: Water-stage recorder. Datum of gage is 683.62 ft above mean sea level. Prior to Mar. 18, 1925, nonrecording gage at several sites within 300 ft of present site at present datum. Mar. 18,1925, to Mar. 10, 1933, water-stage recorder and Mar. 11, 1933, to Sept. 14, 1939, nonrecording gage, at present site and datum. Since September 1938, auxiliary water-stage recorder 5.6 mi downstream.
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Table of Current Streamflow conditions, or
tab-separated ASCII file of monthly data.
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