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Elkhead Creek near Clark

River gage · ELKHEACO · USGS 09244500 · Division 6 · Water District 44 · Routt County

Live gage at DWR ↗ · USGS monitoring location ↗ · Download daily record (CSV)

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The record

Period of record
1942-10-01 → 1973-09-30
Daily values
6,119
Latest cached reading
3.9 cfs (1973-09-30)
Trend
increasing, 17.33 cfs/decade (54.6% 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

Chart: annual mean flow at Elkhead Creek near Clark, water years 1942 to 1973. The measured record is increasing at 17.33 cubic feet per second per decade. The underlying yearly values are available as a CSV download linked at the top of this page.

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Where it sits

Location as DWR records it (5.0).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation ELKHEACO; recorded station name “ELKHEAD CREEK NEAR CLARK, CO.”; 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.