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Tllble6 Annual Peak Dlschllrgll for the Plllttll River lit Sublette, Colorado !I ~ 23 April 1926 5Junal928 8,090 8,060 1816 _ The flood of late May 1816 resulted from rain- fall on sllowpllek. It waS reputed to have be..n the highest flood SiliCA 1864. 18'>4 Hellvyralnfall over the Front Range of the Rocky lk>untalnscllused flooding on the South Platte River In ll1teMay and early June. Floodwaters purportedly covered hundreds of acres In the Brighton vicinity. Old timers sllld It was the greatest flood slnee 1876. Considerable Inflow resulted from such streams 115 Clear Creek, Boulder Creek, and St. Vrllln Creek. 1921_HAavyralnflllloverrnuchoftheupperSouth Platte River basin caused flooding In ~eld County in early June. Bahelln Brighton and Orchard, the wooden bridges were lmp"ssable; two were destroyed and the appr01lches to the others were destroyed for 11 dIstance of several hundred yards. At Fort Mbrg"n the water South Date DlscharQe (c.1.s,) . 5 September 1938 25 June 1947 . 10,700 12,000 16 June 1949 6 August 1951 17,100 9,440 . !I FroM U.S,G.S. Gaging Station locatad 30 feet upstream f~ Highway bridge, 1/4 mile south of Sublette and 3 112 miles east of Masters. surface crest was comparable to th"t of the flood of 18')4. The flood at Kersey waS the largest ever recorded y Only those years having a peak dlschar9S of 5,000 c.f.s. or g~ater are lndlc~ted. dlsch~rge of this at that location . No1"acontlnuousrecord. table 2. Gage abandoned For period after 1955. of gaging record, see 1938 to4Soptember cao..lsed floodIng South PllItte as exceptforthefloodOfr-v.yl'l73. He~vy rai nfall during fhe period from 30 ~ugust over much of the UPDer South Platte River basin on many well as of the mountain streams tributary to the the South Platte Itself. Relatively minor " floodlnq wllS reported on the South Platte River. 1942 _ The flood of AprIl-May on the South Platte River "as c~used by excessive rainfall and snowmelt. The sustained high flOwS created considerable damage mainly due to erosion. Some leveefllilureoccurred. Falllngt",mperatures In lata April turned theralnfillltosnowas"ell dssubSldln'1themeltofth..."xlstlng snowpack thus preventing more serious flooding. 1948-H""vyrfllnfall OV<lra I ",r"e area <l"stof;).,nver caused flooding In late ~ay and early June On the South PI~tte River blltween Sand Creek and Fort Lupton. Several ",paroaches to countybrldges""re,,~shedout..s...ell dstloodlngof ~".qri- cultural land. "