FLOOD01663

• County: Moffat
• Community: Craig, Moffat County
• Stream Name: Yampa River
• Title: Flood Hazard Information
• Date: 9/30/1987
• Prepared For: Craig, Moffat County
• Prepared By: US Army Corps of Engineers
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

CONTENTS (Continued)

FIGURES

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1-2 Fortification Creek Floodwaters in Craig, February 1904
3-4 Fortification Creek Floodwaters, March 1921 ....
5 Ice Jam on Fortification Creek, March 1947 . . . , ,
6-8 Fortification Creek Floodwaters, Craig and Environs.
March 1947 . , . . , . . . . . . , . . . . . . . .
9-10 Snowmelt Flooding, Cedar Mountain Gulch, March 1971
11 Yampa River Floodflows, April 1974 .....""

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1 General and Inaex Map
2-27 Flooded Areas }. . . , . . . . , , , , , , . . . . . . ,
2844 Flood Profiles

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COVER PHOTOGRAPHS:
F ortifica tion Creek flood water
easterly of Craig, March 1947.
Photographs, from Corps of
Engineers files, believed to have
been taken by L, S. McCandless,
Craig Empire Courier.

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INTRODUCTION

PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF REPORT

The purpose of this report is to describe
and illustrate the flood hazard in and around
the City of Craig, Moffat County, Colorado.
The report will aid in planning the best use of
lands subject to inundation from 100- and 500-

LIMITS OF STUDY

This report covers a 7 mile reach of the
Yampa River just south of Craig and the
lower reaches of Fortification Creek and
Brotherton, Cedar Mountain, and Pine Ridge
Gulches, Fortification Creek is tributary to
the Yampa River by way of a remnant
anabranch channel. Pine Ridge Gulch is a
direct tributary to the river, but the lower

year floods. However, it does not contain
recommendations for solving flood problems
or plans for use of flood plain areas because
these activities are the responsibilities of local
government.

three-fourths mile of channel has been largeb'
obliterated by agricultural operations, Broth-
erton and Cedar Mountain Gulches are
tributary to Fortification Creek and Pine
Ridge Gulch, respecti\'ely, Plate 1 is a general
map of the Craig area, Data on the stream
reaches studied are shown in Table 1,

TABLE 1
STREAM REACHES STUDIED

Length of
Stream Reach Reach
From: To: (miles)
Yampa River River Mile River Mile 6,97
138,39 145.35
Fortification Creek Mouth Stream Station 4,02
21.20'
Brotherton Gulch Mouth Stream Station 1.26
6.63
Pine Ridge State Highway Stream Station 1.23
13/789 6.50
Cedar Mountain Mouth Stream Station 2,64
13.95
L In thousands of feet.

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