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This list of Water Resources Mission Area publications includes both official USGS publications and journal articles authored by our scientists. A searchable database of all USGS publications can be accessed at the USGS Publications Warehouse.

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Geology and ground-water resources of Seward County, Kansas

No abstract available.
Authors
F.E. Byrne, Thad G. McLaughlin

Flood of September 1946 at San Antonio, Texas

A flood occurred in the streams in and near San Antonio, Teat., during the early morning hours of September 27, 1946, as a result of heavy rains falling during the previous night. Much property damage occurred in San Antonio and below, and four lives were lost. . It is the purpose of the present report to describe this flood and its relation to the flood of September 10, 1921 the greatest of recor
Authors
Seth D. Breeding

Discharge and runoff in the Missouri River basin

Within the Missouri River Basin the precipitation and temperature vary greatly with both time and geographical location. Differences in weather and climate combine with differences in topography and geology to produce large differences in runoff from time to time and from place to place in the basin. The average annual runoff ranges from a fraction of an inch for some drainage areas to more than 4
Authors
Bruce R. Colby, Roy E. Oltman

Public water supplies in eastern Texas

This report gives a summarized description of the public water supplies in 77 counties of eastern Texas, extending from the Louisiana boundary to a northsouth line approximately along the ninety-seventh meridian. It gives the available data as follows for each of 323 communities: The population of the community; the name of the official from whom the information was obtained; the ownership of the
Authors
Raymond W. Sundstrom, W.W. Hastings, W. L. Broadhurst

Discharge and sediment loads in the Boise River drainage basin, Idaho 1939-40

The Boise River project is a highly developed agricultural area comprising some 520 square miles of valley and bench lands in southwestern Idaho. Water for irrigation is obtained from the Boise River and its tributaries which are regulated by storage in Arrow Rock and Deer Flat reservoirs. Distribution of water to the farms is effected by 27 principal canals and several small farm laterals whi
Authors
S. K. Love, Paul Charles Benedict

Index to river surveys made by the United States Geological Survey and other agencies, revised to July 1, 1947

The descriptive list of surveys of rivers in the United States issued by the United States Geological Survey in 1926 as Water-Supply Paper 558 comprised surveys by the Geological Survey and other Federal bureaus and by State, semiofficial, and private agencies. Since then many additional river surveys, most of them now available in published sheets, have been completed by the Geological Survey, an
Authors
Benjamin E. Jones, Randolph Olaf Helland

Texas floods of 1940

Floods occurred in Texas during, June, July, and November 1940 that exceeded known stages on many small streams and at a few places on the larger streams. Stages at several stream-gaging stations exceeded the maximum known at those places since the collection of daily records began. A storm, haying its axis generally on a north-south line from Cameron to Victoria and extending across the Brazos, C
Authors
Seth D. Breeding