Rogue River Basin – Streamflow, Reservoir & Tide Gages

About the Rogue River Basin

The Rogue River flows about 215 miles from its headwaters near Crater Lake to the Pacific Ocean at Gold Beach, Oregon, draining roughly 5,100 square miles of southwestern Oregon and a small part of northern California.

Major tributaries include the South Fork Rogue River, Big Butte, Elk, Little Butte and Bear creeks, and the Applegate and Illinois rivers. Flows on the upper and middle Rogue are regulated by Lost Creek Lake (William L. Jess Dam, 1977), and the Applegate River by Applegate Lake. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Rogue River Basin Project (Talent Division) stores and delivers irrigation water through Emigrant, Howard Prairie, Hyatt, Agate and Fish lakes and a network of canals, all covered below.

What River Flow Planner shows for each gage

Each gage page turns the agency’s full daily record into planning tools for fishing, rafting, kayaking, swimming, irrigation and in-stream work:

• Summary hydrograph of typical flows or lake levels through the year
• Percent of time flows fall within a range you choose
• Likely range of flows on future dates you pick
• How a recent period compares with normal, plus a year-by-year spaghetti plot
• Flood frequency statistics for USGS gages with peak-flow records
• CSV downloads and links to current real-time data and short-term forecasts
• For NOAA tide stations at Gold Beach and Wedderburn: a tide forecast chart and tide calendar for dates you pick, and the highest and lowest tides of the next 5 years

Rogue River (mainstem)

Big Butte Creek

South Fork Big Butte Creek

Elk Creek

South Fork Rogue River

Little Butte Creek

North Fork Little Butte Creek

South Fork Little Butte Creek

Antelope Creek

Applegate River

Illinois River

Sucker Creek

Bear Creek

Wagner Creek

Willow Creek

Green Springs Powerplant

Reservoir Elevation

Canal Gages

Tide Stations (NOAA)

NOAA tide prediction stations in the Rogue River estuary at the river mouth. Tide heights are in feet above mean lower low water (MLLW) unless you choose another datum.

Other basins

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