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Compass Point: Home of Dirty Girl Adventures

Little Soldier Creek near Compass Point: Home of Dirty Girl Adventures

River16.5 mi
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About this river

Little Soldier Creek is a 16.5 mile river near Compass Point: Home of Dirty Girl Adventures in Kansas. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Soldier C near Topeka, KS (site 06889500). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 5. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.

Typical flow by month

1936 to 2026

Little Soldier Creek typically runs highest in May, at a median 75 cfs, and lowest in September, at 11 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 30,600 cfs, in 2006.

Typical flow by month at Soldier C near Topeka, KS, in cfs
MonthTypical (cfs)Usual range (cfs)Relative level
January228.0 to 52
February3314 to 80
March4718 to 122
April6724 to 153
May7534 to 200
June6426 to 177
July269.8 to 60
August145.9 to 36
September113.0 to 37
October122.4 to 44
November175.6 to 47
December207.1 to 49

Typical is the median of each month’s daily median values, and the usual range runs from the median 25th to the median 75th percentile, across about 91 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Soldier C near Topeka, KS (site 06889500). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.

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