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Cotton Creek near Mineral Hot Springs

River gage · COCRMICO · USGS 08226700 · Division 3 · Water District 25 · Saguache County

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The record

Period of record
1967-01-01 → 2026-07-06
Daily values
12,034
Latest cached reading
5.5 cfs (2026-07-06)
Trend
no trend, -0.31 cfs/decade (-3.0% 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 (5).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation COCRMICO; recorded station name “COTTON CREEK NEAR MINERAL HOT SPRINGS, CO.”; 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.