The creek
Archive →Five Mile Creek at the Republic gauge, rolled up a day at a time: how low it sat, how high it came, and how much water went through. The shaded band on the chart is the day's low to its high, which is the part a daily average hides. A creek that averaged a foot and a half can still have touched three and a half at four in the afternoon.
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Why this record is short
The gauge only remembers a month
USGS hands back the last thirty days and nothing before it, and until this page was built that is all the site kept, so the creek was the one thing here that did scroll away. The record now starts the day it was built and grows a day at a time from here. The gauge itself has been reporting since long before that, and the full run is on the USGS page for the station.
Where this comes from The USGS gauge on Fivemile Creek near Republic, station 02457595, which reads the water every fifteen minutes. Each row here is one day of those readings rolled into a low, a high, a mean, and the average flow through the channel. Republic sits upstream of all three towns, so what it reads today is broadly what comes through Brookside, Cardiff, and Graysville after it. A day missing more than half its readings is left out rather than reported wrong.