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Bear Creek at Sheridan

River gage · BCRSHECO · USGS 06711500 · Division 1 · Water District 9 · Arapahoe County

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The record

Period of record
1927-03-01 → 2026-08-17
Daily values
44,500
Latest cached reading
9.6 cfs (2026-08-17)
Trend
increasing, 1.67 cfs/decade (4.6% of median)
Pettitt changepoint
~1968

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).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation BCRSHECO; recorded station name “BEAR CREEK AT SHERIDAN”; operated by DWR. 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.