Yellow Creek near White River flow today
Streamflow at USGS station 09306255, in the Yampa-White-Green basin (Division 6).
About this gauge
Yellow Creek near White River is one of the 30 stream gauges BasinMind reads for the Yampa-White-Green basin, Division 6 of Colorado's seven water divisions. It is USGS station 09306255 (40.1686, -108.4012), and the official record is on that station's page.
At Oct 4, 2026, 12:15 p.m. MT it read 0.4 cfs, about 0.8 acre-feet a day. The median flow for this date over the gauge's record is 1.4 cfs, so today's flow is 27% of it: critically low.
Across Division 6, DWR lists 8 active calls; the most senior is Prestopitz Ditch Alt PT1 on Talamantes Creek, priority Apr 1, 1882 (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 Yampa-White-Green basin
- White River below Boise Creek near Rangely · 244 cfs
- Yampa River near Maybell · 102 cfs
- White River above Coal Creek near Meeker · 201 cfs
- North Fork White River at Buford
- South Fork White River near Budges Resort
- Yampa River above Stagecoach Reservoir · 35 cfs
- Yampa River at Steamboat Springs · 57 cfs