Fountain Creek near Fountain flow today
Streamflow at USGS station 07106000, in the Arkansas basin (Division 2).
About this gauge
Fountain Creek near Fountain 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 07106000 (38.6017, -104.6703), and the official record is on that station's page.
At Oct 4, 2026, 1:00 p.m. MT it read 100 cfs, about 198 acre-feet a day. USGS publishes no daily median for this gauge, so no percentage is shown.
On the Fountain Creek, the nearest gauges BasinMind reads are Fountain Creek at Security upstream and Fountain Creek near Pinon 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 Fountain Creek
- Fountain Creek near Colorado Springs · 9 cfs
- Fountain Creek at Colorado Springs · 25 cfs
- Fountain Creek below Janitell Road below Colorado Springs · 109 cfs
- Fountain Creek at Security · 58 cfs
- Fountain Creek near Pinon · 101 cfs
- Fountain Creek at Pueblo
- Fountain Creek at 8th Street at Pueblo · 86 cfs