### Profile surveys in the Colorado River basin in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico

By: William Harrison Herron

                            https://doi.org/10.3133/wsp396

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- Plates:                               - **Plate VIII**                            (1.1 MB pdf)                          Reconaissance plan and profile of Green River, Colorado state line to Horseshoe Bend, Utah - Sheet C
  - **Plate I**                            (1.2 MB pdf)                          Reconaissance plan and profile of Green River above Fontenelle, Wyoming - Sheet A
  - **Plate II**                            (1.5 MB pdf)                          Reconaissance plan and profile of Green River above Fontenelle, Wyoming - Sheet B
  - **Plate III**                            (1.2 MB pdf)                          Reconaissance plan and profile of Green River above Fontenelle, Wyoming - Sheet C
  - **Plate IV**                            (1.2 MB pdf)                          Reconaissance plan and profile of Green River above Fontenelle, Wyoming - Sheet D
  - **Plate V**                            (1.1 MB pdf)                          Reconaissance plan and profile of Green River above Fontenelle, Wyoming - Sheet E
  - **Plate VI**                            (1.1 MB pdf)                          Reconaissance plan and profile of Green River, Colorado state line to Horseshoe Bend, Utah - Sheet A
  - **Plate VII**                            (1.1 MB pdf)                          Reconaissance plan and profile of Green River, Colorado state line to Horseshoe Bend, Utah - Sheet B
  - **Plate IX**                            (1.9 MB pdf)                          Plan and profile of Green, Duchesne, Unita, and White Rivers in vicinity of Ouray, Utah - Sheet A
  - **Plate X**                            (1.6 MB pdf)                          Plan and profile of Green, Duchesne, Unita, and White Rivers in vicinity of Ouray, Utah - Sheet B
  - **Plate XI**                            (1.0 MB pdf)                          Plan and profile of Green, Duchesne, Unita, and White Rivers in vicinity of Ouray, Utah - Sheet C
  - **Plate XII**                            (1.0 MB pdf)                          Plan and profile of Green, Duchesne, Unita, and White Rivers in vicinity of Ouray, Utah - Sheet D
  - **Plate XIII**                            (1.2 MB pdf)                          Plan and profile of Green River, mouth to Gunnison Butte, Utah - Sheet A
  - **Plate XIV**                            (1.4 MB pdf)                          Plan and profile of Green River, mouth to Gunnison Butte, Utah - Sheet B
  - **Plate XV**                            (1.5 MB pdf)                          Plan and profile of Green River, mouth to Gunnison Butte, Utah - Sheet C 
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#### Abstract

In connection with studies of the utilization of rivers the United States Geological Survey has from time to time made surveys and profiles of some of the more important streams of the country and published the results in its series of water-supply papers. In some parts of the country these surveys were made chiefly to determine the location of power sites on streams adapted to the development of power by low or medium heads of 20 to 100 feet; in others the purpose of the surveys was more closely related to the possibility of storing water at certain points and diverting it for use in irrigation.

The earlier surveys, such as those of Green River above Fontenelle, Wyo., made in 1909 (Pls. I-V) were of a reconnaissance type and as a rule show no contours along the banks. The later surveys are typified by that of the Gila in the vicinity of Cliff and Redrock, N. Mex., made in 1915 (Pls. XLI-XLIII) and show conditions in much greater detail. These later surveys were made by means of plane table and stadia. Elevations are based on heights derived from primary or precise levels of the United States Geological Survey. The maps are made in the field and show not only the outlines of river banks, the islands, the positions of rapids, falls, shoals, and existing dams, and the crossings of all ferries and roads, but the contours of banks to an elevation high enough to indicate the possibility of using the stream.

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