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Research about Snake River Basin

Source-linked reports with geographic coverage including Snake River Basin.

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USGS1971

Surface water supply of the United States, 1961-65, Part 13. Snake River basin

This volume is one of a series of 37 reports presenting records of stage, discharge, and content, of streams, lakes, and reservoirs in the United States during the 1961-65 water years. Since 1888, when the U.S. Geological Survey first studied streamflow in relation to problems of irrigation, similar records have been obtained at more than 17,500 gaging stations in the 50 States. On September 30, 1965, the Geological Survey and cooperating organizations were maintaining 9,100 gaging stations. Partial-record stations for low flow or for floodflow have been operated at many other points. The records for the 1961-65 water years at gaging stations and partial-record stations in the Snake River basin are given in this report.

Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming↗

USGS1935

Water utilization in the Snake River Basin

The purpose of this report is to describe the present utilization of the water in the Snake River Basin with special reference to irrigation and power and to present essential facts concerning possible future utilization. No detailed plan of development is suggested. An attempt has been made, however, to discuss features that should be taken into account in the formulation of a definite plan of development. On account of the size of the area involved, which is practically as large as the New England States and New York combined, and the magnitude of present development and future possibilities, considerable details have of necessity been omitted. The records of stream flow in the basin are contained in the reports on surface water supply published annually by the Geological Survey. These records are of the greatest value in connection with the present and future regulation and utilization of the basin's largest asset water.

Snake River Basin↗

USGS1914

Profile surveys in Snake River basin, Idaho

Snake River, the largest tributary of the Columbia, rises among the high peaks of the Rocky Mountains in Yellowstone National Park, heading in the divide from which streams flow northward and eastward into the Missouri, southward to the Colorado and the lakes of the Great Basin, and westward to the Columbia. From the headwater region, including Shoshone, Lewis, and Heart lakes, in Yellowstone National Park, the river flows southward, broadening into Jackson Lake (4 miles wide and 18 miles long) and passing through Jackson Valley (8 miles wide and 40 miles long), beyond which, near the Idaho-Wyoming line, it enters a long canyon. At the south edge of Madison County, Idaho, it receives Henrys Fork, below which the Snake flows southward and westward across Idaho to a point near Homedale, near the Oregon-Idaho line, where it turns abruptly northward and beyond which it forms for about 170 miles the boundary between Idaho and Oregon and for 30 miles more that between Idaho and Washington. It enters Washington at Lewiston, flows northwest, west, and southwest, and joins the Columbia near Pasco.

Idaho;Nevada;Oregon;Utah;Washington;Wyoming↗