FLOOD08934

• County: Statewide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Contributions to the Hydrology of the United States
• Date: 3/20/1926
• Prepared By: USGS
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Educational/Technical/Reference Information

106 CONTIUB'OTIONS TO HYDROLOGY OF UNITED STATES, 1923--1924,

valley of the Arkansas. These floods have been described in connec-
. tion with the Arkansas River flood of June 3-5, 1921.'
Another region in which cloudbursts are prevalent lies along the
western foothills, in the western part of the State.' In this region the
area most subject to cloudburst is the extreme upper end of the Un-
compahgre Valley, where the sides converge and join the main mass
of the San Juan Mountains above Ouray. Cloudbursts have been
noted in this area from Dallas Creek near Ridgway southward to
and including the streams draining the almost vertical walls of the

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mountain amphitheater that nearly surrounds Ouray,. T)le cloud-
burst on Skyrocket. Creek is a good example of cloudbursts near
Ouray (fig. 9, a). Several cloudbursts have been noted on Small
streams that drain the sides of the Uncompahgre Plateau and the
. Grand Mesa near Delta and on streams that drain the slopes of the
Grand Hogback and Book Cliffs from Rifle to DeBeque.
. Few cloudbursts have been recorded within the main mountain
area, A small area south of Eagle is subject to occasional heavy

1 Follansbee, Robert, and JOnes. E. E., The Ark:aoaaa River flood Of June 3-5, 1921: U. S. Geol. Survey
Water-Supply Paper 481. 1922.