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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

Period of record
1953-04-01 → 1996-09-30
Daily values
15,889
Latest cached reading
7.9 cfs (1996-09-30)
Trend
increasing, 13.86 cfs/decade

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 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.