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Elk River near Milner

River gage · ELKMILCO · USGS 09242500 · Division 6 · Water District 58 · Routt County

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The record

Period of record
1904-10-01 → 2026-07-06
Daily values
19,884
Latest cached reading
158.0 cfs (2026-07-06)
Trend
decreasing, -3.25 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 ELKMILCO; recorded station name “ELK RIVER NEAR MILNER, 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.