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North Fork Big Thompson River at Drake

River gage · BTNFDRCO · USGS 06736000 · Division 1 · Water District 4 · Larimer County

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The record

Period of record
1947-05-31 → 2026-08-15
Daily values
20,431
Latest cached reading
27.7 cfs (2026-08-15)
Trend
no trend, -2.43 cfs/decade (-7.8% of median)

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 (4.0).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation BTNFDRCO; recorded station name “NORTH FORK BIG THOMPSON RIVER AT DRAKE, CO.”; 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.