Steamboat Creek and tributaries instantaneous streamflow measurements

In 1969, Oregon State University George Brown collected streamflow and water temperature data on Steamboat Creek and its tributaries. Steamboat Creek is a tributary to the North Umpqua River and provides habitat for wild anadromous Summer Steelhead, native Cutthroat Trout, and other flora and fauna. The North Umpqua drains the west slope of the Oregon Cascade mountains to the Pacific Ocean. Steamboat Creek has a U.S. Geological Survey stream gage 14316700 at the mouth, with a continuous record of stage (feet) and discharge (cubic feet per second) from 1956 to the present. This data publication includes data measured by Brown: summer, instantaneous discharge or streamflow (cubic feet per second) of Steamboat Creek and more than 8 tributaries. All measurements were at the mouths of tributaries and near tributary confluences on Steamboat Creek. In 1975, Umpqua National Forest personnel measured streamflow on one or more dates during the low flow summer months, continuing annually on up to nine stream sites until present (2023). Also provided are shapefiles containing watershed boundaries and site locations.Brown collected data to characterize riparian vegetation and aquatic habitat for Brown et al. (1971), continued by the Umpqua National Forest for the same purpose during changing watershed conditions, including timber harvest, over the next 50 years.These data were originally published on 11/23/2021. On 10/12/2022, data for 2021 and 2022 were added, and the data point for Big Bend on 10/09/2020 was corrected to 12.66 (originally this value was reported as 12.51). On 01/10/2024, data for 2023 were added.