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AUDIT ROW #436 · USGS GAUGES ON THE REACH · THE CREST SERIES NAMED
The Kankakee's floods are a gauged record — the U.S. Geological Survey keeps the river's Indiana gauges (the upper-basin stations at Davis and downstream at Kouts and Shelby among them) — and a crest table for the reach is a pull from that series, not a thing to write from memory. This pass did not pull the crest series, and no crest heights or flood dates for the Walkerton reach are printed here, deliberately: flood numbers are the class of fact this build never carries unverified. What the article establishes is the frame — the gauges exist, their peak-flow files are the record, and the town's own flood experience (the marsh-edge township's high-water years) would be dated against them with the town paper's files as the local limb. The row closes mixed: frame dug, table open under the USGS peak series (named, with the Independent's flood files as its pair).
Principal sources: U.S. Geological Survey gauge record for the Kankakee basin (the frame, as indexed); settlers named — USGS peak-flow files for the reach's gauges; the Walkerton Independent's flood files.