Floods of January 19-21 Are Among the Highest Ever Recorded in Maryland Area Streams and Rivers
U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Geological Survey
Water Resources Division
8987 Yellow Brick Rd.
Baltimore, MD 21237
Press Release : (Click to read release about the flooding)
Stage and discharge at selected stream-gaging stations in the Maryland area for the floods of January 19-21, 1996
[First line of data is from Hurricane Agnes flood of June 1972; second line is data from recent flooding. Current data are preliminary and subject to revision.]
| Gaging station | Date | Stage (feet) |
Discharge (cubic ft Recurrence per sec) |
| Susquehanna River | 6/24/72 | 36.83 | 1,130,000 |
| at Conowingo, Md. | 1/20/96 | 34.18 | 909,000 |
| Deer Creek | 6/22/72 | 17.09 | 12,200 |
| at Rocks, Md. | 1/20/96 | 14.42 | 8,830 |
| Winters Run | 6/22/72 | 11.60 | 7,600 |
| near Benson, Md. | 1/19/96 | 10.23 | 5,940 |
| Little Patuxent River | 6/22/72 | 25.40 | 35,400 |
| near Savage, Md. | 1/19/96 | 14.08 | 7,720 |
| Patuxent River | 6/22/72 | 27.90 | 31,100 |
| near Bowie, Md. | 1/20/96 | 16.14 | 8,280 |
| North Branch Potomac River | 6/23/72 | 7.07 | 4,680 |
| at Kitzmiller, Md. | 1/19/96 | 12.87 | 31,700 |
| Wills Creek | 6/23/72 | 10.06 | 11,300 |
| near Cumberland, Md. | 1/19/96 | 22.53 | 44,000 |
| North Branch Potomac River | 6/23/72 | 14.55 | 17,400 |
| near Cumberland, Md. | 1/19/96 | 25.61 | 60,000 |
| Potomac River | 6/23/72 | 28.83 | 64,500 |
| at Paw Paw, W. Va. | 1/20/96 | 40.95 | 122,000 |
| Potomac River | 6/23/72 | 30.79 | 112,000 |
| at Hancock, Md. | 1/20/96 | 36.38 | 153,000 |
| Conococheague Creek | 6/23/72 | 24.5 | 32,400 |
| at Fairview, Md. | 1/20/96 | 14.49 | 15,300 |
| Antietam Creek | 6/23/72 | 14.30 | 9,880 |
| near Sharpsburg, Md. | 1/19/96 | 13.71 | 8,960 |
| Potomac River | 6/23/72 | 37.43 | 347,000 |
| at Point of Rocks, Md. | 1/21/96 | 36.50 | 312,000 |
| Monocacy River at Jug Bridge | 6/23/72 | 35.9 | 81,600 |
| near Frederick, Md. | 1/20/96 | 23.71 | 37,500 |
| Potomac River | 6/24/72 | 22.03 | 359,000 |
| near Washington, D.C. | 1/21/96 | 19.31 | 347,000 |
| Youghiogheny River | 6/23/72 | 8.01 | 4,980 |
| near Oakland, Md. | 1/19/96 | 13.10 | 14,200 |
(For further details contact Jim Gerhart, District Chief (410 238-4201) or Bob James, Hydrologic Surveillance and Assessment Chief (410 238-4205) or see our Web Page at http://md.water.usgs.gov/
