About this river
Cow Creek is an 11.0 mile river near Sundance Kayak School in Oregon. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge West Fork Cow Creek near Glendale, OR (site 14309500). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 7. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1956 to 2026
Cow Creek typically runs highest in January, at a median 362 cfs, and lowest in September, at 7.8 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 11,000 cfs, in 1965.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 362 | 158 to 810 | |
| February | 310 | 168 to 600 | |
| March | 343 | 168 to 629 | |
| April | 192 | 110 to 360 | |
| May | 78 | 51 to 113 | |
| June | 34 | 27 to 43 | |
| July | 16 | 12 to 20 | |
| August | 8.8 | 7.0 to 11 | |
| September | 7.8 | 6.2 to 9.6 | |
| October | 11 | 7.9 to 18 | |
| November | 63 | 31 to 190 | |
| December | 277 | 102 to 704 |
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 70 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for West Fork Cow Creek near Glendale, OR (site 14309500). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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