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Big Thompson River at Mouth of Canyon near Drake

River gage · BTCANYCO · USGS 06738000 · Division 1 · Water District 4 · Larimer County

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The record

Period of record
1927-01-01 → 2013-09-11
Daily values
35,720
Latest cached reading
117.0 cfs (2013-09-11)
Trend
decreasing, -15.56 cfs/decade (-15.9% of median)
Pettitt changepoint
~1958

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 BTCANYCO; recorded station name “BIG THOMPSON RIVER AT MOUTH OF CANYON NEAR DRAKE”; operated by NWBOR. 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.