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Arkansas River at Garden City, Ks

River gage · ARKGARKS · USGS 07139000 · Division 2 · Water District 67

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The record

Period of record
1922-06-21 → 2026-07-06
Daily values
32,060
Latest cached reading
0.0 cfs (2026-07-06)
Trend
decreasing, -12.07 cfs/decade (-23.5% of median)
Pettitt changepoint
~2001

Readings come from the weekly-refreshed cache, never fetched live — the date beside the value says exactly how fresh it is. The live gage is one click up.

Annual flow & trend

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Where it sits

Location as DWR records it (5.0).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation ARKGARKS; recorded station name “ARKANSAS RIVER AT GARDEN CITY, KS”; operated by USGS. Daily flows from the DWR HydroBase snapshot plus CDSS REST updates, refreshed on the weekly cycle. Trend statistics are Mann-Kendall (Hamed-Rao corrected) with Sen's slope in native cfs, the same numbers as the basin Trends tab.