Cottonwood Creek at Union Blvd at Colorado Springs flow today
Streamflow at USGS station 07103987, in the Arkansas basin (Division 2).
About this gauge
Cottonwood Creek at Union Blvd at Colorado Springs is one of the 83 stream gauges BasinMind reads for the Arkansas basin, Division 2 of Colorado's seven water divisions. It is USGS station 07103987 (38.9304, -104.7762), and the official record is on that station's page.
At Oct 4, 2026, 1:05 p.m. MT it read 2.3 cfs, about 4.5 acre-feet a day. The median flow for this date over the gauge's record is 2.8 cfs, so today's flow is 81% of it: near median.
On the Cottonwood Creek, the nearest gauges BasinMind reads are Cottonwood Creek at Woodmen Road near Colorado Springs upstream and Cottonwood Creek at Mouth at Pikeview downstream.
Across Division 2, DWR lists 18 active calls; the most senior is Hardscrabble Ditch on Hardscrabble Creek, priority May 1, 1860 (the full list). A call governs the stretch of river it is placed on, so look for this river in the list.
One cfs is a cubic foot of water passing each second, about 448.8 gallons per minute; percent of median compares today's flow with the median for this date (cfs and acre-feet). How calls work: What is a water call?.
Main-stem gauges in the Arkansas basin
- Arkansas River at Parkdale
- Arkansas River near Leadville · 12 cfs
- East Fork Arkansas River at US Highway 24 near Leadville · 14 cfs
- Arkansas River near Nathrop
- Arkansas River at Portland
- Arkansas River at Moffat Street at Pueblo · 232 cfs
- Arkansas River near Avondale · 616 cfs
- Arkansas River at La Junta
More gauges on the Cottonwood Creek
- Cottonwood Creek at Woodmen Road near Colorado Springs · 1.3 cfs
- Cottonwood Creek at Mouth at Pikeview · 3.3 cfs