USGS Station 06214500
YELLOWSTONE RIVER AT BILLINGS, MT
(National stream quality accounting network)
YELLOWSTONE RIVER BASIN
Latitude: 45^48'00"; Longitude: 108^28'00"
Hydrologic Unit Code: 10070007
Drainage area: 11,795 square miles.
Location: In SE1/4SE1/4SE1/4 sec.27, T.1 N., R.26 E., Yellowstone County, on right bank 0.3 mi downstream from bridge on U.S. Highway 87, 1 mi northeast of Billings, 10 mi upstream from Pryor Creek, and at river mile 360.3.
Period of Record: May 1904 to December 1905 (gage heights only January to March, December 1905), August 1928 to current year. Monthly discharge only for some periods, published in WSP 1309. Published as "near Billings" 1904-5. area.
Gage Information: Water-stage recorder. Elevation of gage is 3,080 ft above sea level, from topographic map. May 1904 to December 1905, nonrecording gage at bridge 0.3 ft upstream at different datum. Aug. 24, 1928, to June 30, 1932, nonrecording gage at bridge 0.3 mi upstream at datum 2.0 ft higher. July 1, 1932, to Oct. 12, 1937, water-stage recorder at old diversion dam 3.3 mi upstream at different datum. Oct. 13, 1937, to Jan. 9, 1963 and Dec. 2, 1967 to Sept. 12, 1990, water-stage recorder 0.3 mi upstream at datum 3,081.36 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929. Jan. 10, 1963 to Dec. 2, 1967, water-stage recorder at City of Billings Water Department intake, 2.1 mi upstream at datum 3,069.9 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929.
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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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