USGS Station 05480500
DES MOINES RIVER AT FORT DODGE, IA
DES MOINES RIVER BASIN
Latitude: 42^30'22"; Longitude: 94^12'04"
Hydrologic Unit Code: 07100004
Drainage area: 4,190 square miles.
Location: In NW1/4 SW1/4 sec.19, T.89 N., R.28 W., Webster County, on right bank 400 ft upstream from Soldier Creek, 1,800 ft downstream from Illinois Central Railroad bridge in Fort Dodge, 2,000 ft downstream from Lizard Creek, and at mile 314.6.
Period of Record: April 1905 to July 1906 (no winter records), October 1913 to September 1927 (published as "at Kalo"), October 1946 to current year. Monthly discharge only for some periods, published in WSP 1308. (M).
Gage Information: Water-stage encoder. Datum of gage is 969.38 ft above sea level. See WSP 1728 for history of changes prior to Dec. 8, 1949.
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Monthly Streamflow hydrograph for this station,
;
Table of Current Streamflow conditions, or
tab-separated ASCII file of monthly data.
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