About this river
Boxelder Creek is an 8.8 mile river near The Outdoor Campus - Rapid City in South Dakota. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Boxelder Creek near Nemo, SD (site 06422500). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 5. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1967 to 2026
Boxelder Creek typically runs highest in May, at a median 28 cfs, and lowest in January, at 5.0 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 6,700 cfs, in 1972.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.0 | 3.0 to 7.9 | |
| February | 5.5 | 3.1 to 8.5 | |
| March | 9.8 | 6.4 to 16 | |
| April | 17 | 10 to 36 | |
| May | 28 | 12 to 62 | |
| June | 26 | 9.7 to 67 | |
| July | 15 | 6.8 to 36 | |
| August | 9.8 | 4.6 to 21 | |
| September | 8.1 | 4.0 to 13 | |
| October | 7.9 | 4.2 to 13 | |
| November | 7.1 | 4.0 to 11 | |
| December | 5.5 | 3.5 to 8.5 |
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 59 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Boxelder Creek near Nemo, SD (site 06422500). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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