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Water year 2023: 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30
 
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USGS Water-Year Summary 2023
10312000 Carson River Near Fort Churchill, NV
LOCATION - Lat 39°17'30", long 119°18'40" referenced to North American Datum of 1983, in NE 1/4 SE 1/4 sec.35, T.17 N., R.24 E., Lyon County, NV, Hydrologic Unit 16050202, on left bank, 400 ft downstream from Buckland Ditch, 2.0 mi west of Fort Churchill, 4.5 mi upstream of Weeks Bridge, and at mi 30.82 upstream from Lahontan Reservoir.
DRAINAGE AREA - 1,302 mi². (Area at site when gage located at Weeks Bridge, 1,450 mi²).
REVISIONS HISTORY - WSP 1514: 1917; WDR NV-79-1: Drainage area.
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - Apr. 1911 to current year.
GAGE - Water-stage recorder. Elevation of gage is 4,180 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929, from topographic map. Prior to Apr. 25, 1924, non recording gage at site 12.3 mi upstream at different datum. Apr. 25, 1924 to Dec. 31, 1933, water-stage recorder at site 12.5 mi upstream at different datum. Jan. 1, 1934 to Jan. 3, 1997 at various sites 4.5 mi upstream at different datums. Gage destroyed in Jan. 1997 flood and relocated to Weeks Bridge Feb. 1, 1997, at new datum. Relocated upstream 4.5 mi to previous site and datum, Dec. 14, 1999. Relocated downstream 200 ft, Jul 12, 2020 at same datum.
REMARKS - 10/01/2013-09/30/2014: Records fair except for estimated daily discharges, which are poor. 10/01/2014-09/30/2015: Records fair except for estimated daily discharges, which are poor. 10/01/2015-09/30/2016: Records fair. 10/01/2016-09/30/2017: Records poor. 10/01/2017-09/30/2018: Records fair except for estimated discharges, which are poor. 10/01/2018-09/30/2019: Records fair except for estimated discharges, which are poor. 10/01/2019-09/30/2020: Records good except for estimated discharges, which are poor.
EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Maximum discharge, 22,300 ft³/s, Jan. 3, 1997, gage height, 15.27 ft; no flow at times, some years.