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Prairie Dog Creek near Woodruff

Highest listed crest 26.70 ftFlood stage 19.0 ft75 crests since 1953

The Prairie Dog Creek near Woodruff crested above flood stage 12 times among the 75 crests the National Weather Service lists from 1953 to 2025. The highest, 26.70 ft on June 16, 1957, was moderate flooding, 7.70 feet above flood stage.

The gauge

Highest listed crest
26.70 ft
June 16, 1957; 8,910 cubic feet per second
Flood stage
19.0 ft
Major flooding from 30.0 ft
Crests at major
0
12 above flood stage
Most recent flood crest
May 27, 2019
22.23 ft, minor flooding
Location
Phillips County
Kansas

Flood stages

The thresholds the National Weather Service uses for this gauge today, and how many listed crests reached each.

Flood categories, Prairie Dog Creek near Woodruff
Action stage17.02Jul 5, 2001The level at which the NWS or its partners begin to take action
Flood stage (minor)19.010May 27, 2019Minimal or no property damage, but possibly some public threat
Moderate flood stage24.02Jun 24, 1966Some inundation of structures and roads near the stream
Major flood stage30.00—Extensive inundation of structures and roads

Every listed crest

75 crests from 1953 to 2025. Filled: at or above flood stage. Hover a crest for its date and stage.

Listed crests at the Prairie Dog Creek near Woodruff, 1953 to 2025 0102030ft Flood stage 19.0 ftMajor 30.0 ft May 29, 1953: 18.48 ft, action stage; 11,300 cubic feet per secondJul 8, 1956: 12.82 ft, below flood stage; 964 cubic feet per secondMay 11, 1957: 16.96 ft, below flood stage; 1,600 cubic feet per secondJun 16, 1957: 26.70 ft, moderate flooding; 8,910 cubic feet per secondJul 22, 1958: 12.64 ft, below flood stage; 906 cubic feet per secondJun 23, 1959: 11.83 ft, below flood stage; 725 cubic feet per secondMar 23, 1960: 23.20 ft, minor flooding; 4,480 cubic feet per secondMay 16, 1960: 21.67 ft, minor flooding; 3,400 cubic feet per secondMay 22, 1961: 20.78 ft, minor flooding; 2,890 cubic feet per secondJun 5, 1961: 23.21 ft, minor flooding; 4,490 cubic feet per secondJul 3, 1962: 20.50 ft, minor flooding; 2,740 cubic feet per secondAug 13, 1963: 20.55 ft, minor flooding; 2,820 cubic feet per secondAug 20, 1964: 8.37 ft, below flood stage; 424 cubic feet per secondSep 6, 1965: 16.83 ft, below flood stage; 1,670 cubic feet per secondOct 19, 1965: 19.83 ft, minor floodingJun 24, 1966: 25.33 ft, moderate flooding; 7,030 cubic feet per secondJun 22, 1967: 16.84 ft, below flood stage; 1,830 cubic feet per secondAug 10, 1968: 16.72 ft, below flood stage; 1,590 cubic feet per secondAug 31, 1969: 10.90 ft, below flood stage; 708 cubic feet per secondOct 19, 1969: 6.72 ft, below flood stage; 288 cubic feet per secondSep 2, 1971: 4.28 ft, below flood stage; 118 cubic feet per secondJul 12, 1972: 5.91 ft, below flood stage; 226 cubic feet per secondJul 19, 1973: 8.88 ft, below flood stage; 488 cubic feet per secondOct 11, 1973: 5.71 ft, below flood stage; 207 cubic feet per secondAug 14, 1975: 14.20 ft, below flood stage; 1,240 cubic feet per secondSep 13, 1976: 9.05 ft, below flood stage; 506 cubic feet per secondSep 3, 1977: 23.48 ft, minor flooding; 4,580 cubic feet per secondMar 11, 1978: 8.51 ft, below flood stage; 451 cubic feet per secondApr 19, 1979: 11.63 ft, below flood stage; 624 cubic feet per secondApr 3, 1980: 4.89 ft, below flood stage; 64 cubic feet per secondJun 26, 1981: 8.82 ft, below flood stage; 351 cubic feet per secondMay 12, 1982: 8.07 ft, below flood stage; 279 cubic feet per secondMay 19, 1983: 11.14 ft, below flood stage; 810 cubic feet per secondMay 3, 1984: 5.46 ft, below flood stage; 14 cubic feet per secondMay 14, 1985: 10.92 ft, below flood stage; 504 cubic feet per secondJul 10, 1986: 8.39 ft, below flood stage; 454 cubic feet per secondJul 9, 1987: 14.25 ft, below flood stage; 849 cubic feet per secondJul 19, 1988: 16.48 ft, below flood stage; 1,310 cubic feet per secondAug 1, 1989: 12.27 ft, below flood stage; 561 cubic feet per secondAug 19, 1990: 11.82 ft, below flood stage; 508 cubic feet per secondMay 27, 1991: 4.97 ft, below flood stage; 44 cubic feet per secondAug 8, 1992: 15.85 ft, below flood stage; 1,170 cubic feet per secondMar 8, 1993: 15.34 ft, below flood stage; 1,060 cubic feet per secondJul 5, 1994: 11.23 ft, below flood stage; 634 cubic feet per secondMay 28, 1995: 16.26 ft, below flood stage; 1,450 cubic feet per secondAug 7, 1996: 20.14 ft, minor flooding; 2,360 cubic feet per secondJun 27, 1997: 15.31 ft, below flood stage; 1,140 cubic feet per secondJul 27, 1998: 11.70 ft, below flood stage; 593 cubic feet per secondMay 23, 1999: 9.73 ft, below flood stage; 339 cubic feet per secondJul 23, 2000: 12.53 ft, below flood stage; 680 cubic feet per secondJul 5, 2001: 17.61 ft, action stage; 1,810 cubic feet per secondMay 14, 2002: 3.42 ft, below flood stage; 19 cubic feet per secondJul 10, 2003: 3.58 ft, below flood stage; 25 cubic feet per secondMay 18, 2004: 4.11 ft, below flood stage; 39 cubic feet per secondApr 6, 2005: 15.63 ft, below flood stage; 1,380 cubic feet per secondAug 10, 2006: 3.83 ft, below flood stage; 14 cubic feet per secondFeb 20, 2007: 3.47 ft, below flood stage; 476 cubic feet per secondMay 26, 2008: 10.91 ft, below flood stage; 477 cubic feet per secondOct 23, 2008: 13.98 ft, below flood stage; 723 cubic feet per secondApr 24, 2010: 13.41 ft, below flood stage; 1,250 cubic feet per secondAug 31, 2011: 8.35 ft, below flood stage; 406 cubic feet per secondOct 10, 2011: 13.66 ft, below flood stage; 1,290 cubic feet per secondMay 31, 2013: 7.15 ft, below flood stage; 263 cubic feet per secondAug 23, 2014: 5.50 ft, below flood stage; 136 cubic feet per secondAug 8, 2015: 6.77 ft, below flood stage; 204 cubic feet per secondSep 4, 2016: 11.04 ft, below flood stage; 680 cubic feet per secondMay 20, 2017: 6.04 ft, below flood stage; 190 cubic feet per secondJul 30, 2018: 8.64 ft, below flood stage; 414 cubic feet per secondMay 27, 2019: 22.23 ft, minor flooding; 3,450 cubic feet per secondMay 25, 2020: 12.56 ft, below flood stage; 771 cubic feet per secondMay 28, 2021: 11.70 ft, below flood stage; 610 cubic feet per secondApr 29, 2022: 8.70 ft, below flood stage; 331 cubic feet per secondSep 22, 2023: 10.35 ft, below flood stage; 468 cubic feet per secondJun 1, 2024: 13.50 ft, below flood stageAug 10, 2025: 4.78 ft, below flood stage Highest, 26.70 ft, Jun 16, 1957 1960197019801990200020102020

Crests at or above flood stage, by decade

Crests at or above flood stage per decade, Prairie Dog Creek near Woodruff 1950s: 1 1960s: 8 8 1970s: 1 1980s: 0 1990s: 1 2000s: 0 2010s: 1 2020s: 0 1950s1960s1970s1980s1990s2000s2010s2020s
  1. These are the crests the local National Weather Service office lists for the gauge: the highest on record and recent crests. Lesser floods between them may be missing, so counts by decade are a floor.
  2. Categories use today's flood stages. Levees, dams and channel changes since a crest can make old and new stages not directly comparable.
  3. 2 crests measured on an earlier gauge datum are left out: 21.04 ft on Jun 23, 1947; 19.25 ft on Jul 14, 1951.

Highest crests

The 50 highest of 75 listed crests.

Highest listed crests, Prairie Dog Creek near Woodruff
1Jun 16, 195726.70+7.70Moderate8,910
2Jun 24, 196625.33+6.33Moderate7,030
3Sep 3, 197723.48+4.48Minor4,580
4Jun 5, 196123.21+4.21Minor4,490
5Mar 23, 196023.20+4.20Minor4,480
6May 27, 201922.23+3.23Minor3,450
7May 16, 196021.67+2.67Minor3,400
8May 22, 196120.78+1.78Minor2,890
9Aug 13, 196320.55+1.55Minor2,820
10Jul 3, 196220.50+1.50Minor2,740
11Aug 7, 199620.14+1.14Minor2,360
12Oct 19, 196519.83+0.83Minor—
13May 29, 195318.48−0.52Action11,300
14Jul 5, 200117.61−1.39Action1,810
15May 11, 195716.96−2.04Below flood stage1,600
16Jun 22, 196716.84−2.16Below flood stage1,830
17Sep 6, 196516.83−2.17Below flood stage1,670
18Aug 10, 196816.72−2.28Below flood stage1,590
19Jul 19, 198816.48−2.52Below flood stage1,310
20May 28, 199516.26−2.74Below flood stage1,450
21Aug 8, 199215.85−3.15Below flood stage1,170
22Apr 6, 200515.63−3.37Below flood stage1,380
23Mar 8, 199315.34−3.66Below flood stage1,060
24Jun 27, 199715.31−3.69Below flood stage1,140
25Jul 9, 198714.25−4.75Below flood stage849
26Aug 14, 197514.20−4.80Below flood stage1,240
27Oct 23, 200813.98−5.02Below flood stage723
28Oct 10, 201113.66−5.34Below flood stage1,290
29Jun 1, 202413.50−5.50Below flood stage—
30Apr 24, 201013.41−5.59Below flood stage1,250
31Jul 8, 195612.82−6.18Below flood stage964
32Jul 22, 195812.64−6.36Below flood stage906
33May 25, 202012.56−6.44Below flood stage771
34Jul 23, 200012.53−6.47Below flood stage680
35Aug 1, 198912.27−6.73Below flood stage561
36Jun 23, 195911.83−7.17Below flood stage725
37Aug 19, 199011.82−7.18Below flood stage508
38Jul 27, 199811.70−7.30Below flood stage593
39May 28, 202111.70−7.30Below flood stage610
40Apr 19, 197911.63−7.37Below flood stage624
41Jul 5, 199411.23−7.77Below flood stage634
42May 19, 198311.14−7.86Below flood stage810
43Sep 4, 201611.04−7.96Below flood stage680
44May 14, 198510.92−8.08Below flood stage504
45May 26, 200810.91−8.09Below flood stage477
46Aug 31, 196910.90−8.10Below flood stage708
47Sep 22, 202310.35−8.65Below flood stage468
48May 23, 19999.73−9.27Below flood stage339
49Sep 13, 19769.05−9.95Below flood stage506
50Jul 19, 19738.88−10.12Below flood stage488

Gauges on the Prairie Dog Creek

In USGS station-number order, which runs downstream within a river basin.

Flood gauges on the Prairie Dog Creek
Clayton 4EKS11.016.81 ft, Sep 6, 19723
Woodruff this gaugeKS19.026.70 ft, Jun 16, 19570

Other gauges in Phillips County

Flood gauges in Phillips County
Glade11.018.65 ft, Sep 5, 20162

Phillips County: every hazard · River floods across the country · Kansas

NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge WDRK1, retrieved October 30, 2026. Stages in feet on the gauge's own datum, not elevation. Crests are as the National Weather Service lists them; preliminary values may be revised.