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Elkhead Creek near Elkhead
River gage · ELKHENCO · USGS 09245000 · Division 6 · Water District 44 · Routt County
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The record
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 Elkhead, water years 1953 to 1996. The measured record is no trend at 3.92 cubic feet per second per decade. The underlying yearly values are available as a CSV download linked at the top of this page.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it (5.0).
Provenance
DWR station abbreviation ELKHENCO; recorded station name “ELKHEAD CREEK NEAR ELKHEAD, 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.