USGS Water-Year Summary 2024
13010065 SNAKE RIVER ABOVE JACKSON LAKE AT FLAGG RANCH, WY
LOCATION - Lat 44°05'56", long 110°40'03" referenced to North American Datum of 1983, in SW 1/4 NE 1/4 sec.28, T.48 N., R.115 W., Teton County, WY, Hydrologic Unit 17040101, Flagg Ranch quad., Grand Teton National Park, on left bank 50 ft upstream from State Highway 89 bridge, 2 mi. downstream from the south boundary of Yellowstone National Park, 600 ft. downstream from the confluence with Sheffield Creek.
DRAINAGE AREA - 486 mi² of which 12 mi² probably is noncontributing.
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - October 1983 to current year. Prior to 1988 water year, published as station 13010200.
GAGE - Water-stage recorder and crest-stage gage. Elevation of gage datum is 6,806.42 ft above NAVD88, from GNSS survey. A nonrecording cantilever chain gage was used from 1913-18 at a site 2.5 mi upstream at a different datum. In 1918, an auxiliary chain gage was installed at the current site and read periodically. Water-stage recorder installed July 1921 at the current site at a different datum and operated until July 1925. Records probably not comparable.
EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Maximum daily discharge, 11,300 ft³/s June 5, 1996; maximum gage height, 10.75 ft, June 5. 1996, from backwater; minimum discharge, 120 ft³/s Sept. 11, 2016, gage height, 1.95 ft.
WATER-QUALITY RECORDS
PERIOD OF DAILY RECORD - WATER TEMPERATURE: November 1983 to September 1985, June 1994 to September 1996 (no winter records), June to November 2002, May 2022 to current year.
INSTRUMENTATION - Sutron Aquatemp thermistor.
EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF DAILY RECORD - WATER TEMPERATURE: Maximum recorded, 23.3°C, July 13, 2002; minimum recorded, -0.10°C, many days, most years.