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Horse Creek at Highway 194

River gage · HRC194CO · Division 2 · Water District 17 · Bent County

Live gage at DWR ↗ · Log in to download the daily record (CSV)

Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR station ↗ Source Our computation, no independent reference · computed here from the screened record

Two different numbers, deliberately: Flowing now is raw 15-minute telemetry, provisional and unreviewed. Latest cached reading is the end of the verified daily record. They are never merged, and the verified series is the one the trend is computed on.

The record

Period of record
1988-02-08 → 2026-10-21
Daily values
13,737
Flowing now
4.91 cfs 2026-11-12 10:15, 1.9 h ago
Latest cached reading
2.2 cfs (2026-10-21)
Trend
no trend, -0.54 cfs/decade (-6.7% 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 Horse Creek at Highway 194, water years 1988 to 2026. The measured record is no trend at -0.54 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 HRC194CO; recorded station name “HORSE CREEK AT HIGHWAY 194”; 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.